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Responsible journalism, despite the evidence of recent events, is not yet a dying art. The world of news reporting has long been distinguished by some of the most intrepid and insightful reporting from around the world, including Peter Robb in Brazil, Ryszard Kapuscinski in former Abyssinia and Martha Gellhorn wherever conflict broke out.
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Sebastian Junger From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. | Roberto Saviano The Camorra are Italy's other organised crime syndicate; the award-winning author is now in hiding. |
Anthony Swofford In the West, many have become convinced that it is possible to fight a war largely without casualties. Swofford's brutally honest account of life as a marine ('jarhead') in the... | George Orwell; Jeremy Paxman Presents an account of the author's experience as a police officer in imperial Burma. This collection features the essays that include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How... |
Lawrence Wright A thorough exploration of the personalities and world events that led to the formation of Al-Qaeda and ultimately to the horrific events of 9/11. | Rajiv Chandrasekaran From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. This... |
Dexter Filkins Captures the human experience - and tragedy - of war. This book offers a visceral understanding of the War on the Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and... | Tim Mackintosh-Smith The award-winning travel book by the author of Travels with a Tangerine |
| Michela Wrong A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong's vision of Congo/Zaire during... |
Ian Frazier; Robert Macfarlane Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This book is a journey... | George Packer Talking about Iraq war, this title recounts how the US set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq, showing the... |
Steve Coll The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. | Peter Robb Using the art, food and the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery and the multicultural but disturbed society that was... |
Ahmed Rashid Explores the volatile and dangerous region in the world. In this story of squandered opportunities, misguided alliances and double-dealing, the author pinpoints with chilling accuracy where the true threat to... | Norman Mailer Reissue of a modern classic - the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. |