- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; illustrated edition edition (25 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718147278
- ISBN-13: 978-0718147273
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 571,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith, and Nicholas Della Casa were the founder members of an exclusive and dangerous club: the Frontline TV News Agency. Between them, this colourful collection of adventurers and ex-army officers captured some of the key images at the end of the Cold War, and the fractured, fissile world which emerged. Two of them are now dead: killed in action. The way they lived and died was an anachronism; they were eccentrics who might have been happier fighting wars in the British Empire a century before. Instead, they brought back pictures from the worst war zones the late twentieth century had to offer. And it suited them. For the men of Frontline, how things were done was as important as what was done. All four of the founders, and those they recruited, shared the same panache, wit, and disdain for authority, planning the next trip to the Hindu Kush in the bar of the Ritz. Their story reads like a latter-day Rudyard Kipling adventure. But while their lives may have been lived as if they were still playing the Great Game, they also cared passionately about their work and the truth it conveyed. Part Bang Bang Club, part Flashman, Frontline is the gripping story of lives lived to the full in some of the worst places on earth.
About the Author
David Loyn has travelled extensively with Frontline cameramen in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. In a long career at the BBC, he has won major awards for reporting in both television and radio.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you like Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game this book is for you. We have seen it all on the news. This is a truely insightful look at the lives of the men behind the camera. It gives us a real understanding of the real stories behind the news. Written by David Loyn, the BBC's Foreign Correspondant it takes the reader through the lives and deaths of some truely remarkable news gatherers who live and lived their lives attempting to let the world really know what was going on. An exciting and gripping read that will certainly get you thinking. Very Highly recomended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fantastic read. A fascinating look at the story behind the news. A story of true adventure by the unsung heros behind the news. Reminiscent of the tales of Younghusband & Colonel FM Baily and the other Great Game players
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am amazed that this book has not been more extensively commented on. It is an exceptional story about remarkable individuals written with panache by an author who clearly has great empathy with them and their work. Such a shame that pretty well all that remains is the Frontline Club because of technology and corporate practise by the big battalions in jounalism. But at least this is a totem to a bold ethos.
I commend it to anyone interested in jounalism in post-conflict environments and sheer adventure.
I commend it to anyone interested in jounalism in post-conflict environments and sheer adventure.
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