MANHATTAN TO BAGHDAD Paul McGeough - Despatches from the Frontline in the War on Terror

A most excellent book by the Australian ABC foreign correspondent.

This is a used book in good condition: clean with minor wear; pages tanning lightly with age; a few minor age spots. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: On September 11th, Paul McGeough stood transfixed on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Only a month earlier he had been in Afghanistan, reporting on the humanitarian crisis gripping the country under Taliban rule. Now he was forced to run for his life as the World Trade Center's second tower collapsed in a cloud of smoke and debris. Foreign correspondents are forever on the road: within weeks of George W. Bush's declaration of the War on Terror, Paul McGeough was back in Afghanistan, reporting from the trenches on the US-led war against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. What followed was 12 months hurtling around the globe, from shattered New York to the frontlines of war-torn Central Asia and the mess of the Middle East. He returned to New York for the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, and then it was back to Baghdad. During that year he saw three colleagues killed in a Taliban ambush. He visited poverty-stricken villages and the lavish offices of Iraqi politicians. He interviewed Northern Alliance commanders, families of suicide bombers and families of September 11th victims. He was the house guest of an Afghan warlord and an unwelcome visitor to the Jenin refugee camp, destroyed by Israeli forces. "Manhattan to Baghdad" provides an eyewitness account of the first year of the first major war in the new millennium.

Book Details

Code: SKU1017

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 288

Published: 2003 by Allen & Unwin

ISBN: 1741140250

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $8.00