Hot War Cold War: History from a Reporter's Notebooks Volume 1

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Ian Mather's career as a newspaper correspondent covered many conflicts of the late Twentieth century. From hot wars, such as Vietnam, to the Arctic wastes of the Cold War, he witnessed major events at first hand. This is his story, as recollected from the unique resource of hundreds of notebooks he kept during his career, which included many years as Defence Correspondent of The Observer. Since journalism is the first draft of history, and notebooks are its raw materials, they are, therefore, historical documents, and often unique. PART ONE covers the years 1967 to 1980, from the dying embers of British rule in Aden, through the Nigerian Civil War, the United States' involvement in Vietnam, and Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The author witnessed war and upheavals in the Sub-Continent, and the violent eruption of fundamentalist Islam in revolutionary Iran. Then, as the decade closes, these worlds are brought head-to-head in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan - an event at which he was the only journalist present.

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