Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen first
became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed
violence already, both at home and abroad, but it wasn't until he
covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he had
arrived. Armed with the fearlessness of youth he lived for the job,
was in love with it, aware of the dangers but assuming the bullets
and bombs were meant for others. In 2000, however, after eleven
years in some of the world's most dangerous places, the bullets
came too close for comfort, and a close friend was killed in
Lebanon. This, and then the birth of his first child, began a
process of reassessment that culminated in the end of the affair.
Now, in his extraordinarily gripping and thought-provoking new
book, he charts his progress from keen young novice whose first
reaction to the sound of gunfire was to run towards it to the more
circumspect veteran he is today. It will also discuss the changes
that have taken place in the ways in which wars are reported over
the course of his career, from the Gulf War to Bosnia, Afghanistan
to Rwanda.
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