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A Spectator Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year ‘An
illuminating and riveting read.’ - Jonathan Dimbleby Jeremy
Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the
Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its
complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern
Middle East – in part based on his acclaimed podcast, ‘Our Man
in the Middle East’ – Bowen takes us on a journey across the
Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and
women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign,
and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked
devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever
their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic
control. With his deep understanding of the political, cultural and
religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s
Turkey, Assad’s Syria and Netanyahu’s Israel and his long
experience of covering events in the region, Bowen offers readers a
gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it
came to be and what its future might hold.
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.
The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a
generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live
peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the
superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never been
able to digest the land it swallowed in 1967. However big its army,
it will never be at peace or feel secure until the future of this
land is settled. Thirty-six years after the end of the six days of
fighting, after thousands more deaths and the failure of years of
negotiation to try to reach a political settlement, Israelis and
Palestinians are fighting once again on the streets in the West
Bank and Gaza. It is still a low-level conflict, but if another
full-blown Middle East war breaks out, its roots will lie in those
six days in June 1967. Drawing on his experiences as the BBC's
former Middle East correspondent, and building on extensive
original research and interviews with some of the key participants,
Jeremy Bowen uses his vast array of contacts to weave together a
completely convincing and compelling account, hour by hour, of the
1967 war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As insightful
as the best modern hist
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The Kites Are Flying! (Paperback)
Michael Morpurgo; Contributions by Jeremy Bowen; Illustrated by Laura Carlin
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R187
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Discovery Miles 1 530
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From the former Children's Laureate and author of international
phenomenon War Horse comes a moving tale celebrating the bright
light of humanity surviving even in the darkest conflict.
Travelling to the West Bank to witness first hand what life is like
for Palestinians and Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall,
journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic
Palestinian boy, Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive
tree while Said makes another of his kites. When Said takes Max
home, the reporter learns of the terrible events in the family's
past and begins to understand why Said does not speak. Told from
both Max's and Said's points of view, Morpurgo has created a
beautiful tale of tragedy and hope with an ending that rings with
joy.
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