Wounds: A Memoir of Love and War
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CY4R30E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 513 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. He has been awarded a BAFTA and has been 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 Reporter of the Year in the Amnesty International Press Awards and won the James Cameron Prize and the Edward R.Murrow Award from the US Overseas Press Association. He is one of the BBC's most dist
Praise for Fergal Keane: `Keane's real distinction was in his reporting talents, which as this book shows, are considerable.' Evening Standard `His book is a memoir but it is so much more than thata volume of the most exquisitely written and moving truth and honesty.' TLS `A completely honest account of reporting conflict.' Independent `An empowering story of triumph over adversity.' Irish Times `Profoundly honest.' Observer `Fergal Keane operates masterfully on three levels, setting this, the last military stand of British empire, in a far wider campaign contextvivid, compelling and terrifyingKeane catches both shrinking revulsion and astounding courage to brilliant effectI found myself, on one or two pages towards the close, caught in a choking emotion.The evidence is meticulously gathered and the writing so powerful that it turns a book about a battle into a book about human beings, their existence and their end.' Guardian `In his sweeping account of the battle in Kohima in 1944, Fergal Keane does justice to the memory of the men who fell and who surviveda vivid account which brings to life the brutality of that waran engrossing narrative of ghastly battle'The Independent
I could never stay awake long enough to encounter the phantasm. A family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be silent still.‘There was a tale about a soldier being shot on the street outside my grandmother’s house. My father told this as a ghost story. The mood of the telling was wistful. Facing these people and their stories at last, ‘Wounds’ searches for a deeper sense of the personal history that made this colonial war, and how it initiated the beginning of the end of empire. Why else would a ghost come back? My father said that if we watched carefully in the deep night we would see a green shadow moving around the bedroom overlooking the main street. I was an adult before I learned the root of this story.’Trying to relate the kindly men and women of his childhood with the deeds made public long years after they died, Fergal Keane’s devastating history of a local murder asks, what is a terrorist? And how do people live with the act of killing?As those who pulled triggers, planted bombs and spied are long dead – as are their children – the bitterness of memory has faded in the towns where the violence and torture took place. The killing had been wrong. A heartbreaking tale of the secrets of war, this journey is part of the story of all wars.