Review, by Emily Thompson, Discovery
Put me down I’m British is a fascinating book. Particularly reading it at the moment when there is fresh conflict in Israel and the middle-east.
Written by Stephen Weizman, a former Reuters journalist who witnessed many of the world’s recent atrocities - the book provides an interesting first hand account of international politics and conflicts.
It focuses initially on the Palestinian intifada in 1987 and provides a balanced view of the bloody battles...through personal accounts.
The book also covers Weizman’s work in Liberia (and) Zaire ...as well as gang warfare in Scandinavia and reporting on the border in Cyprus where he suffers a stabbing.
Throughout Weizman suffers personal injuries and near death experiences as well as regular bans on his reports and public humiliations at the hands of the governments not wanting the truths to be published. It feels like a battle not many people would have continued, not for a career and not for the truth.
This is a fascinating book about recent conflicts, told by someone who lived through them. The complexities of conflicts and the interconnected politics is bewildering. So the personal accounts of incidents in his life during this period help to bring the events to life and help them make sense to the reader.
A must for anyone interested in current events to understand the context of them.
Written by Stephen Weizman, a former Reuters journalist who witnessed many of the world’s recent atrocities - the book provides an interesting first hand account of international politics and conflicts.
It focuses initially on the Palestinian intifada in 1987 and provides a balanced view of the bloody battles...through personal accounts.
The book also covers Weizman’s work in Liberia (and) Zaire ...as well as gang warfare in Scandinavia and reporting on the border in Cyprus where he suffers a stabbing.
Throughout Weizman suffers personal injuries and near death experiences as well as regular bans on his reports and public humiliations at the hands of the governments not wanting the truths to be published. It feels like a battle not many people would have continued, not for a career and not for the truth.
This is a fascinating book about recent conflicts, told by someone who lived through them. The complexities of conflicts and the interconnected politics is bewildering. So the personal accounts of incidents in his life during this period help to bring the events to life and help them make sense to the reader.
A must for anyone interested in current events to understand the context of them.
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