War Junkie

Author(s): Steele Jon

Biography

An adrenalin-fuelled white-knuckle ride through the worst places on earth... Jon Steele was addicted to war. Living for the adrenalin rush which comes as bullets fly around your head and bombs explode at your feet, his job as an ITN cameraman took him to many of the worst places on earth. In Georgia he filmed under a barrage of anti-aircraft guns on the last flight from Sukhumi airport. In Moscow he filmed as armed rebels and Militia fought bitter, bloodthirsty battles on the streets. In Rwanda he filmed things too horrific for words let alone film - and was himself seconds from death. In Zaire, he filmed vast fields of children deranged by hunger and dying of cholera. In Bosnia, he finally realised that he had, in fact, seen and filmed too much and spiralled out of control deep into emotional meltdown. This is his gripping and brilliantly engaging story. It is packed with action, unexpected humour and emotional honesty. By turns shockingly funny and profoundly disturbing, it packs a psychological punch which will challenge our assumptions about war and the human capacity to inflict and endure suffering. Jon Steele is an award-winning cameraman for ITN who has filmed from war zones worldwide. He filmed the missile strikes on Iraq, the Russian-Chechen conflict in Grozny, the Taliban take-over of Afghanistan and the Intifada in the West Bank and Gaza inter alia.

General Information

  • : 9780552149846
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Corgi Books
  • : 0.52
  • : 01 June 2003
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Steele Jon
  • : Paperback
  • : 070.1/95/092
  • : 544