Paul Moorcraft 
Inside the Danger Zones 
Travels to Arresting Places

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, Inside the Danger Zones is the story of Paul Moorcraft’swork during the major wars of the last three decades. As a freelance war correspondent and military analyst for many of the top TV networks, Moorcraft has parachuted into countless war zones and worked at the heart of the British security establishment. Hehas the habit of being in the wrong place at the worst of times, from the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s to the siege of the West Bank town of Jenin in 2002. This book takes him to a series of conflict zones from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, covering coups and counter-coups across the globe. Along the way he encounters some of the most dangerous people in the world; in Afghanistan when the West was training bin Laden’s Mujahedin fighters, interviewing Mugabe during the Rhodesian Bush War of the late 1970s, and travelling to meet Saddam on the eve of the 2003 allied invasion of Iraq.

About the author

PAUL MOORCRAFT has been a freelance journalist, war correspondent and military analyst for Time magazine, the BBC, Channel 4 News, Sky and Al-Jazeera. He is currently the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London, and a visiting professor at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.