Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk by Lara Marlowe
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Overview: ‘Part biography, part autobiography, part love story and part a forceful condemnation of war, this is a fascinating and captivating book’ Irish Times
‘A gripping tale of savagery and courage, of history in the making, intertwined with rich personal reminiscences’ Noam Chomsky
‘This is a portrait of a couple bound in a lovesong, which like all such songs confronts the vagaries of leaving, longing and loss’ Colum McCann
‘A vivid memoir of life during wartime with a journalistic legend’ Business Post
‘A superb account of the life and work of the best reporter I have ever known’ Patrick Cockburn
When Lara Marlowe met Robert Fisk in 1983 in Damascus, he was already a famous war correspondent. She was a young American reporter who would become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife and friends, occasionally angry and estranged from one another, but ultimately reconciled.
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 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 gunmen; sheltered together under bombardment in Beirut, Belgrade and Baghdad. In countries under attack from their own governments, they had to gain the trust of interlocutors who often assumed they were spies. Back home in the US and Britain, they were sometimes accused of partisan reporting because they refused to toe the party line.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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