Paul Moorcraft has been a freelance war correspondent for, among others, Time magazine, the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and Al-Jazeera.
Paul Moorcraft was a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College.
Paul Moorcraft has parachuted into countless war zones and worked at the heart of the British security establishment. Paul Moorcraft has, basically, done a million things that the entire team here at Biteback hasn’t.
Paul Moorcraft has also done far too many things to list, let alone fully explore in a two-hundred-word blog post, so he wrote a book.
On reading the story of Paul’s work during the major wars of the last three decades - which entertains as many moments of hilarity as it does tragedy - we can tell you that we’re not at all jealous. It could be the greatest understatement of the last three decades to say that the man has a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
From the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s to the siege of the West Bank town of Jenin in 2002, the book reads like an extreme version of The World’s Most Terrible Holidays, giving accounts of Paul’s experiences in a series of conflicts from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, covering coups and counter-coups across the globe.
Inside The Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places also tells of his encounters with some of the most dangerous people in the world; bin Laden’s Mujahedin fighters, Mugabe in the Rhodesian Bush War and Saddam Hussein on the eve of the 2003 allied invasion of Iraq.
‘I am amazed he’s still alive.’ – Sir John Keegan, Daily Telegraph
Tell us about it, John. Clearly though, he doesn’t seem to mind, or else this is a series of very unfortunate coincidences that would put anyone off going on holiday for life.
Get your copy of Paul Moorcraft's Inside The Danger Zones here, priced £9.99