War Junkie: One Man's Addiction to the Worst Places on Earth
Soon after starting work as an ITN cameraman, Jon Steele began to feel strangely at home in the kind of places ordinary people get evacuated from. In Moscow, he filmed in the midst of chaos as armed rebels and militia fought hand-to-hand battles on the streets. In Rwanda, he filmed the horrific...
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Soon after starting work as an ITN cameraman, Jon Steele began to feel strangely at home in the kind of places ordinary people get evacuated from. In Moscow, he filmed in the midst of chaos as armed rebels and militia fought hand-to-hand battles on the streets. In Rwanda, he filmed the horrific aftermath to the most brutal massacre of modern times. In Zaire, he filmed endless fields full of young children deranged by hunger and ravaged by cholera. And finally in Bosnia, Jon realized that he had seen and filmed more than he could cope with, and finally spiralled into a deep emotional meltdown.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552149846 (0552149845)
Publish date: June 1st 2003
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Heard the author interviewed on the radio, and knew I had to read the book. Managed to get it from the library, and once I read it I went looking for a copy to buy (which I eventually found at my favourite 2nd hand bookshop. Woot!) Totally blew me away. An intimate look at some of the really awful i...
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