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Title: Through Gates of Fire |
| Author: Martin Bell |
Description: Subtitle: A Journey into World Disorder
What kind of a world do we live in when governments are able to pursue wars against not only the will of the people, but also the international institutions set up to promote peace?
In the first World War 90% of casualties were soldiers; in recent wars 90% of casualties are civilians. But instead of bringing home the real human costs of war, the advent of live conflict coverage has led to television being used as just another propaganda tool.
In Through Gates of Fire, Martin Bell uses his personal experiences as a reporter of eleven wars, and independent MP, to write an impassioned, heartfelt and coruscating call to arms. The three central theses are the way in which war, politics and journalism have changed beyond all recognition in the past thirty years. Bell pleads with poetic conviction for a stark reappraisal of the world were creating for ourselves, as politics becomes increasingly remote from ordinary lives and reports from the front line often seem more like scenes from a Hollywood movie.
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Bell pulls no punches in this angry, wise and at time apocalyptic assessment of what he calls the New World Order. - DAILY MAIL it is an important, heartfelt book, providing a voice of reason in a world gone made.- Graeme Green, SUNDAY EXPRESS this intriguing book......his UNICEF work allows him to revisit many of the places from which he has reported, and provides some of the books most moving passages. - SUNDAY TIMES
256pp 198x129
Subtopic: Conflict Resolution |
| Year: 2004 |
| Code: 6409 |
| Price: €10.95 |
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