Love in a time of war : my years with Robert Fisk
Marlowe, Lara2021
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Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famous war correspondent; she was a young American reporter, who would soon become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife, friends, occasionally estranged from and angry with each other. They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the deadly Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. They survived encounters with murderous militiamen; sheltered together under artillery and aerial bombardment in Beirut, Belgrade and Baghdad. In countries under attack from their own governments they had to gain the trust of interlocutors who automatically assumed they were spies. Back home in the US and Britain, they were accused of partisan reporting because they refused to tow the party line. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man by a woman who loved him, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.
Main title:
Love in a time of war : my years with Robert Fisk / Lara Marlowe.
Author:
Marlowe, Lara, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2021.©2021
Collation:
440 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"An Apollo book".Includes index.
ISBN:
9781801102513 (hbk)9781801102513 (hbk)9781801102513
Dewey class:
070.43320922070.433
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
494646
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 070.433 MAR | Onloan - Due: 10 Aug 2024 |
| Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 070.433 MAR | Available |