{"product_id":"love-in-a-time-of-war-my-years-with-robert-fisk-9781801102520","title":"Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003cbr\u003e'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' \u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Fascinating and captivating' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy, adventure, and excitement' \u003cb\u003eJanine di Giovanni\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A superb account of the life and work of the best reporter I have ever known' \u003cb\u003ePatrick Cockburn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Lara Marlowe met Robert Fisk in 1983 in Damascus, he was already a famous war correspondent. She was a young American reporter who would become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife and friends, occasionally angry and estranged from one another, but ultimately reconciled. They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLara Marlowe\u003c\/b\u003e was born in California and studied French at UCLA and the Sorbonne, then International Relations at Oxford. She started her career in journalism as an associate producer with CBS's '60 Minutes' programme, then covered the Arab world from Beirut for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She joined the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e as Paris correspondent in 1996 and returned to Paris in 2013 after serving as Washington correspondent during the first Obama administration. Marlowe was made a Chevalier de la L?gion d'Honneur in 2006 for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLara Marlowe\u003c\/b\u003e was born in California and studied French at UCLA and the Sorbonne, then International Relations at Oxford. She started her career in journalism as an associate producer with CBS's '60 Minutes' programme, then covered the Arab world from Beirut for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She joined the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e as Paris correspondent in 1996 and returned to Paris in 2013 after serving as Washington correspondent during the first Obama administration. Marlowe was made a Chevalier de la L?gion d'Honneur in 2006 for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Apollo Publishing International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877831545106,"sku":"9781801102520","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cda7a1ad-3781-4324-ad36-07f1c5a8ddcf.jpg?v=1739063847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-in-a-time-of-war-my-years-with-robert-fisk-9781801102520","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}