The sun is shining, the weekend is on the horizon - despite rumours to the contrary, January really isn’t so bad.
On Monday, Mark Pack of Lib Dem Voice reviewed his Christmas reading on the website, and it turned out it was a Biteback title.
Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places is the story of Paul Moorcraft’s work during the major wars of the last three decades. As a freelance war correspondent and military analyst for many of the top TV networks, our author - being the crazy fool that he is - has parachuted into countless war zones and worked at the heart of the British security establishment.
When a man has done all these things, most people would expect him to think highly of himself, but, as Pack highlights, this is far from the case:
“Moorcraft’s account reflects plenty of the swagger of many war correspondents but with enough self-mockery to make the account illuminating and interesting rather than a macho display. Even the clichés about drinking and womanising journalists, which he seems to have often fulfilled to the maximum, are full of his own failings.”
To add to the list of reasons why today’s just generally great, we’re going to say that Mark Pack has also made this early-morning blog entry incredibly easy to write. He praises the book for the way it “brings back into the public light many of the forgotten by-ways of history” and seems to appreciate that Moorcraft is “acknowledging how the hunt for bang-bang [exciting journalism] can distract from telling the real story”. Mark, has even given us a closing quote:
“…all through it is an entertaining and educative read”
You can read Mark Pack's review here and you can buy Paul Moorcraft's Inside the Danger Zones here for £9.99