War in the Middle East, Wilborn Hampton
War in the Middle East, Wilborn Hampton
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War in the Middle East
A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War

Author: Wilborn Hampton

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/08/2013


Synopsis

New York Times editor and critic Wilborn Hampton is the acclaimed author of gripping narratives like Kennedy Assassination, Meltdown, and September 11, 2001. In War in the Middle East, the veteran journalist offers a fascinating account of his early 1970s reports from the volatile desert region amidst Black September and the Yom Kippur War. This insider's view of life in a war zone shows Hampton trying to write stories inside a besieged hotel with no electricity or water as fighting rages all around. Hitching rides with reluctant taxi drivers and soldiers, he witnesses aerial dogfights, tank skirmishes, and summary executions. Hampton also explores the origins of these religious and territorial disputes and evaluates their impact on the changing political landscape. With the Gaza Strip, suicide bombers, and Hamas continuing to dominate the headlines, this audiobook is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to understand more clearly the ongoing Middle Eastern turmoil.

Reviews

Have you ever stayed in a hotel where bullets ricocheted into your window, and bomb and mortar explosions happened on the hour? Well, United Press International (U.P.I.) correspondant Wilborn Hampton lived it. Holed up in the InterContinental Hotel, Hampton got a 1st hand experience during the Jord......more

Goodreads review by Ed

A short read going over the author's first hand experience during the Yom Kippur War and Black September. Not a bad little book that gives some good background on these two wars and conflict in general for the middle east. Of course it has some western biases but all history books do. Considering wh......more

Goodreads review by robert

A simple little book. I was more interested in the military details of the Yom Kippur war. The perspective here as very limited. But a nice little summary of all the complexities of the Middle East.......more