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An Intrepid War Correspondent’s 50 Year Odyssey

AvAl J Venter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.In this memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences, sharing the real stories behind the headlines and the sharp lessons he learned that enabled him to survive his countless exploits, ranging from exposing a major KGB operative in Rhodesia entirely by accident, and accompanying an Israeli force led by Ariel Sharon into Beirut, to gun-running into the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 42 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:Casemate Publishers
ISBN:9781636243801

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Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer and has had 50 books published. He started his career with Geneva’s Interavia Group, then owners of International Defence Review, to cover military developments in the Middle East and Africa. Venter has been writing on these and related issues such as guerrilla warfare, insurgency, the Middle East and conflict in general for half a century. He was involved with Jane’s Information Group for more than 30 years and was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News (New York) as well as London’s Daily Express and Sunday Express. He branched into television work in the early 1980s and produced more than 100 documentaries, many of which were internationally flighted. His one-hour film, 'Africa’s Killing Fields' (on the Ugandan civil war), was shown nationwide in the United States on the PBS network. Other films include an hour-long program on the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as 'AIDS: The African Connection', nominated for China’s Pink Magnolia Award. His many books include Africa: In the Line of Fire (2023) and Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique (2022), both by Casemate Publishers.

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ForewordPrologue 1 Africa, the great continent with an appeal all its own2 Home by five3 Heading out into the unknown4 Africa in the 1960s5 Matilda and Albert Schweitzer’s jungle hospital6 Palm wine and plantain in Libreville7 Nigeria: ‘Crazy, but I love it!’8 A peripatetic existence9 Rib-eye and red wine in Abidjan10 Kids with machine guns11 Republic of Guinea to London12 The Londoner: my dream of a ship13 Looking for wars and learning to write14 A bloody battle and a narrow escape in Lagos15 Another close call16 Getting the job properly done17 Independence and revolutions18 The safari capital of the world19 Banned from Rhodesia20 Pen-pushing pals21 All’s fair in love and war22 My favourite: the realm of the underwater23 Mayday … Mayday … Mayday24 Lisbon: beloved city25 You’d be lucky to be hit …26 South Africa invades Angola27 Battle for Beirut28 The murder of a United States Marine colonel in Lebanon’s civil war