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"Inside the Danger Zone: Travels to arresting places"

  • Author(s): Paul Moorcraft
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  • Imprint: Biteback
  • Format: paperback
  • ISBN: 978-1-906447-10-6
  • Publication date: 17/10/2010
  • Price: £8.99

As a war correspondent and military analyst for the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 News and Al-Jazeera, Paul Moorcraft has been ‘parachuted’ into countless war zones for more than 30 years.

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, Inside the Danger Zones is the story of his work during the major wars of the last three decades.

Moorcraft has the habit of being in the wrong place at the worst of times, from the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s to the siege of the West Bank town of Jenin in 2002. This book takes him to a series of conflict zones from Rhodesia to Darfur, covering coups and counter-coups across the world.

Along the way he encounters some of the most dangerous people in the world, working in Afghanistan when the West was training bin Laden’s Mujahideen fighters, interviewing Mugabe during the Rhodesian Bush War of the late-1970s, and meeting Saddam on the eve of the 2003 allied invasion of Iraq.