Wounds - A Memoir of War and Love

Informationen zum Autor Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents and an award-winning broadcaster and author. He has been awarded a BAFTA and named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and the Sony Radio Awards. He has also been named Report of the Year in the Amnesty International Press Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the US Overseas Press Association. Klappentext This 2018 winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize tells the story of BBC correspondent Fergal Keane's family connection to the revolutionary action that followed the 1916 Rising, and to the violence in the north of Kerry taking place in 1922. Keane extends this example to look at conflicts he has been exposed to in his work as a journalist in a newly generational light. Zusammenfassung A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past. 2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Product details

• Authors: FERGAL KEANE, Fergal Keane, Keane Fergal
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9780008189273
• ISBN: 978-0-00-818927-3
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, True war & combat stories, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Memoirs, Press & journalism, Autobiography: historical, political & military, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Armed Conflict, Civil wars, Land forces and warfare, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence