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A review by ladymirtazapine
War Reporting For Cowards by Chris Ayres
4.0
I read this on the recommendation of my boyfriend. I'm not sure what I was expecting, this wasn't quite it. I think I was expecting more of the actual war but more of the book is taken up on how the author ended up in Iraq.
I don't think I'd agree with much of the author's politics, or his views and feelings on the invasion of Iraq specifically, but that hardly matters in the reading of this book. It's not a journalistic account of the Iraq war, 9/11, or anything in any way related to that, it's a memoir. It's entertaining rather than insightful.
It tells the story of how this guy chances his way into a career as a financial journalist, and then accidentally finds himself being sent to cover a war. And it seems the gulf between being a financial reporter and being a war reporter are only slightly narrower than that between being an accountant and being a soldier.
War reporting is something he's definitely not cut out for, although it does appear to cure his generalised anxiety disorder.
I don't think I'd agree with much of the author's politics, or his views and feelings on the invasion of Iraq specifically, but that hardly matters in the reading of this book. It's not a journalistic account of the Iraq war, 9/11, or anything in any way related to that, it's a memoir. It's entertaining rather than insightful.
It tells the story of how this guy chances his way into a career as a financial journalist, and then accidentally finds himself being sent to cover a war. And it seems the gulf between being a financial reporter and being a war reporter are only slightly narrower than that between being an accountant and being a soldier.
War reporting is something he's definitely not cut out for, although it does appear to cure his generalised anxiety disorder.