by John Simpson · Bloomsbury · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408872246
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«We Chose to Speak of War and Strife» is John Simpson's history and journalism essay, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (384 pages, in English).
John Simpson reviews the history of the war correspondent and champions this endangered profession. He interweaves his experience in Kosovo, Kabul or Baghdad with the stories of Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, Don McCullin and Marie Colvin, and traces the evolution of journalism from Crimea to the digital age.
The paperback edition includes two 8-page sections of color plates; it was originally published on June 1, 2017.
For readers interested in war journalism, contemporary history and first-hand accounts from the front line.
John Cody Fidler-Simpson is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News. He holds dual British-Irish citizenship. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.
