- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (15 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316029580
- ISBN-13: 978-0316029582
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 312,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A moving personal testimony' WORD
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'I don't remember seeing a flash. I didn't hear the blast -- I was too close. Like a distorted film, my vision stretched and turned yellow. I was just three feet from the bomb' On 7 July 2005 John Tulloch, a risk analyst and sociologist with an expertise in how the media report major international events found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time; on 8 July he was on the front page of virtually every major newspaper. He had became a victim of the risk he knew so well in theory; he had become one of those media stories he was so used to analysing. But he had also, like many others, become a victim of British and American foreign policy and been caught up, literally in a moment, in a terrible symbol of our particular time in history. From the three most recent wars (Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq) to media representations of disaster, from his own incredibly moving story to the relationships he built up with those who helped him, this compelling and profoundly important book is set to be a classic -- a work that captures both a moment and an era with sensitivity and precision.
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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book doesn't contain much in the way of information about the 7/7 attacks.
Nor does it cover in any great detail the recuperation of the author following the blast in which he was involved.
It does, however, contain long meandering passages with an Academic slant about the Iraq war, many of the chapters being just straight quotes from other anti-war writers.
Other than as an excuse to air ones decidedly one-sided views on the war on terror, I'm still not exactly sure what the point of this book is..
Nor does it cover in any great detail the recuperation of the author following the blast in which he was involved.
It does, however, contain long meandering passages with an Academic slant about the Iraq war, many of the chapters being just straight quotes from other anti-war writers.
Other than as an excuse to air ones decidedly one-sided views on the war on terror, I'm still not exactly sure what the point of this book is..
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