General Interest
Synopsis
‘If you are in a battle and you are filming, your adrenalin rises to a very high level. You can get hooked on that. [...] You have to get in and get your pictures out. It's a wonderful challenge.'
Remember turning on the television and seeing shots of rockets fired at night in the first Gulf War, the first massacre victims in Kosovo, the US bomb that killed women and children in a bunker in Baghdad, and Mullah Omar declaring holy war for the Taliban?
The men and women at the Frontline news agency believed the public should see the true horrors of war and courageously went where other news organisations feared to tread. Risking everything to show the truth, they travelled the world’s most dangerous places in a quest to live life to the full, a quest some paid for with their lives. This is their story.
‘A yarn that nobody would dare make up and Loyn does a terrific job of telling it'
TIME OUT
‘Barnstorming non-fiction. Every page is full of the kind of chutzpah, grit and valour that makes your own nine-to-five seem gut-wrenchingly futile'
ARENA
‘A compelling tale of courage, cunning and adventure. I was gripped by it'
Andy McNab
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‘An enjoyable read on the flip side of war reporting. The true tale of how a collection of maverick, courageous and almost-certainly mad freelance journalists joined forces to cover conflicts...
Dr David Hume in The Orange Standard, June 2011
“ ... a fitting time to bring to the attention of a wider readership the role of the media in reporting from war zones. The publication of Frontline by David...
‘Documenting an exciting, crazy and frightening time in recent history, Frontline is the story of a media agency that specialised in the imagery of war. The major conflicts of an...
Library Journal's Xpress Reviews, 4 May 2012
Before the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of the past decade, it was unusual to see television footage from embedded journalists reporting from the battlefront. Loyn (foreign correspondent, BBC; Butcher & Bolt:...
