{"product_id":"deadlines-and-datelines-christopher-thomas-9781861510495","title":"Deadlines and Datelines: Tales and travails of a Times foreign correspondent","description":"Christopher Thomas' driving ambition as a boy was to become a foreign correspondent. Refusing to be held back by a poor secondary modern school education and a single GCE 'O' level, he learned shorthand to get a job as a trainee on the local newspaper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDetermination and a good deal of bluffing drove him to the top of his profession, and he went on to work for The Times for 28 years. As a foreign correspondent he saw conflicts and suffering in dozens of countries, but amid the wreckage of ordinary people's lives there was always humanity and heroism, and sometimes even hope.\u003cp\u003eAs a long-time foreign correspondent, based in the South Asia for \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003eof London he spent a decade in and around India and has valuable insights into the situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir and India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously author of \u003ci\u003eFaultline Kashmir, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by \u003ci\u003eNew Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePress\u003c\/i\u003e and with insights into Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Kashmir, Christopher Thomas has read and researched deeply into the history of the area, and he has reached a number of uncomfortable but undeniable conclusions that are worth pondering as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir once again erupts in conflict or potential conflict while contemplating, for the first time in years, the tortuous path to peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is bluntly critical of all parties, observing that Pakistan has \"shattered its own democracy\" in military pursuit in Kashmir and Afghanistan and its guerrillas have \"hijacked the people's rebellion\" in the name of jihad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861510497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861510495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quadrant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Christopher Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790408249599,"sku":"9781861510495","price":13.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e7eda82-51be-4819-866d-3d52d01a45b5.jpg?v=1707288853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deadlines-and-datelines-christopher-thomas-9781861510495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}