
War and Peacekeeping
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Over six decades, Martin Bell has stood in eighteen war zones - as a soldier, a reporter and a UNICEF ambassador. Now he looks back on our efforts to keep the peace since the end of the Second World War and the birth of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the new State of Israel.
From the failures of Bosnia, Rwanda and South Sudan to nationalism's resurgence and the distribution of alternative facts across a darkening political landscape, Bell calls for us to learn from past mistakes - before it's too late.
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'Martin Bell is the finest foreign correspondent of his generation.' -- John Laurence, author of <i>The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story</i> 'When I was a young reporter Martin Bell was the TV journalist we all wanted to turn into one day: brave, ferociously principled, unshowy, beautifully spare and articulate, and always uncompromising in preferring what was true to what was spuriously 'balanced'. These qualities leap off the pages of this powerful and penetrating memoir-come-manifesto. His is a voice of clarity, compassion and towering authority. When I was young I wanted to be just like him. I still do.' -- Allan Little 'In my view and without doubt Martin Bell was the finest war reporter of his generation. Martin's personal reflections on not just Bosnia but so many other hotspots of the world flow easily, are hugely perceptive and simply get it. He is a master of emotive depiction and his words bring every situation he describes to life. I have not been able to put this book down since I received it.' -- Colonel Bob Stewart MP 'Bell writes well and he has witnessed many interesting things in his long career... Martin Bell is clearly and transparently a decent and, in some respects, heroic man.' -- Adrian Weale, <i>Literary Review</i>More details
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- They asked if ever I'd been shot,
- INTRODUCTION: 'MAY IT BURN THEIR LOUSY SOULS'
- From many a conflicted land
- 1. THE BIRTH OF PEACEKEEPING
- When I was a soldier the Brass would panic
- 2. STAGGING ON
- Sandbagged and scarred, the airport and city,
- 3. CYPRUS - THE INTERVENTION THAT WASN'T
- Suffer the little children - thousands and more,
- 4. MAXIMUM FORCE
- The helmets were blue
- 5. UNDER THE BLUE HELMET
- The dictator Saddam Hussein
- 6. 'NEVER AGAIN . . .'
- A man of charm, intelligence and zeal,
- 7. KOFI ANNAN
- 'What should I learn?' the young man asked.
- 8. LANDMINES
- The press's reputation being zero,
- 9. PEACEKEEPERS' ACCOMPLICES
- The two-year-olds were half alive,
- 10. SOFT POWER
- The child we do not recognise,
- 11. SOMALIA
- The Treaty of Westphalia
- 12. SOUTH SUDAN
- For all the sins of Blighty
- 13. FLASHBACK TO SINGAPORE
- It's now quite clear to all and sundry
- 14. REMAINER'S LAMENT
- The skies grew dark the morning after
- 15. WILD MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE
- If you wish to avoid mishaps
- 16. TWELVE LESSONS OF SOLDIERING
- In this the age of shock and awe
- 17. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
- I've been shot at and mortared,
- 18. BACK BEARINGS
- The ground is haunted by the ghosts
- 19. ENVOI
- A NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS
- ENDNOTES
- Imprint Page
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