The Making of the Modern Middle East
01 September 2022
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
This audiobook is compellingly read by the author, Jeremy Bowen.
A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year
'An illuminating and riveting read’ – Jonathan Dimbleby
Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. Here, Bowen offers readers a gripping and...
Details
01 September 2022
896 minutes
Jeremy Bowen
9781509890927
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Arresting . . . excellent, doom-freightedJustin Marozzi, The Sunday Times
Jeremy Bowen is one of the finest journalists and broadcasters of our age - qualities which shine through every page of this superb book. . . His judgements are invariably balanced but when they are due he does not shrink from scathing criticisms of the key actors. The result is an illuminating and riveting read.Jonathan Dimbleby, broadcaster, author and historian
[A] compelling blend of sweeping history and vivid memoir . . . Bowen paints in the historical background masterfully and manages to convey the pressure, euphoria and horror of war reporting as wellMail on Sunday
Bears witness to how lofty dreams of the post-Cold War period crashed and burned ... with deep empathy and understanding of the roots of the conflictEmma Sky, The New Statesman