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New Books
Dying
to Tell the Story
Funded by the International News Safety Institute
"Dying to Tell the Story" contains contributions from all the organisations - broadcasters, newspapers and magazines - who lost staff, freelances or local hires during the conflict in and around Iraq in March, April and May of 2003. Not just an historical tribute, the book also looks at many of the issues, which surround and confront the profession in the 21st century.
Chris Cramer, Managing Director of CNN International and Honorary President of the Institute describes the book as: "a labour of love and respect... powerful, profound and very sad".
Order from:
www.newssafety.com
sarah.dejong@newssafety.com
+ 32 2 235 22 01
Dangerous Lives
By Professor Anthony Feinstein
Dangerous Lives is an excellent and long overdue study of the psychiatric effects of war reporting on staff and freelance journalists. What's more there is not a syllable of psychobabble in it. It's a compelling read, elegantly and lucidly written. Many of the famous names of war reporting have contributed their moving and dramatic stories to the book. It's at times harrowing, but psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein brings insight and compassion to these experiences.
The book debunks a damaging myth: that men and women at war are immune to the trauma they are exposed to on a regular basis. Thus he gives our most courageous reporters license to be human in the face of man's inhumanity to man. The book will help us offer the right kind of support and understanding to those, who suffer the inevitable psychological consequences of reporting news from the frontline.
Currently only available
for sale in Canada:
Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto.
Info@t-allen.com
+1 800 387 4333
The Man Who Saw Too Much
By John Little
David Brill was one of Australia's finest news cinematographers. For forty years he covered wars and disasters, from the fall of Saigon, to the war in the Middle East, to the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union. His profession has taken him to conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. His courage is legendary.
A starkly honest book based on 150 hours of interviews with its subject. Little says the process was sometimes fraught and Brill says he learned to appreciate the true value of honesty at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and encouraged Little to write a warts-and-all portrait. "I didn't want it to be a gung-ho book, that's not me." The result is a moving exploration of the high price of commitment.
Published by Hodder
Headline Australia www.hha.com.au
Order from: www.warbooks.com.au
$AUD 56
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