War Zones (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

War Zones (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

by IanJack (Editor)

Synopsis

This work includes dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and new fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White. It also contains: Britain's hidden defence bases, and photographs by Simon Norfolk, words by Neal Ascherson.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
Published: 08 Jan 2007

ISBN 10: 0903141906
ISBN 13: 9780903141901

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Author Bio
Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published in 1987. He lives with his family in London.