God, what a victory!
Jeremy Harding
- Martyr’s Day: Chornicle of small War by Michael Kelly
Macmillan, 354 pp, £16.99, October 1993, ISBN 0 333 60496 2 - Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba
Hodder, 301 pp, £19.99, January 1994, ISBN 0 340 55599 8 - Womens’s Letters in Wartime edited by Eva Figes
Pandora, 304 pp, £20.00, October 1993, ISBN 0 04 440755 6 - The War at Sixteen: Autobiography, Vol. II by Julien Green, translated by Euan Cameron
Marion Boyars, 207 pp, £19.95, November 1993, ISBN 0 7145 2969 9
Michael Kelly has produced a vivid, responsible account of his own itinerary, as a contributor to New Republic, the Boston Globe and the New York Times, through the Gulf War: from Baghdad to Amman; on to Egypt, Palestine, Israel. Saudi Arabia; into Kuwait and back into Iraq, via Basra; thence to Kurdistan. There are few sops to terrible beauty, whatever Kelly’s dust-jacket champions may say, and no excessive enthusiasm for the darker side of his material, either in the abandoned Iraqi torture chambers of Kuwait City or on the road to Basra.
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Vol. 16 No. 3 · 10 February 1994 » Jeremy Harding » God, what a victory! (print version)
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