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Love in a Time of War
- Narrated by: Lara Marlowe
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
A memoir by Lara Marlowe, the Irish Times' correspondent in Paris.
Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famous war correspondent; she was a young American reporter who would soon become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next 20 years, they were lovers, husband and wife, friends, occasionally estranged from and angry with each other.
They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the deadly Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. They survived encounters with murderous militiamen, sheltered together under artillery and aerial bombardment in Beirut, Belgrade and Baghdad. In countries under attack from their own governments they had to gain the trust of interlocutors who automatically assumed they were spies. Back home in the US and Britain, they were accused of partisan reporting because they refused to toe the party line.
Through all this they loved and respected each other, but their marriage eventually disintegrated, partly under the pressures of their work. Even after they separated they remained friends and wrote and spoke to each other affectionately.
This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man by a woman who loved him, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.
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- Mrs. G. Moynihan
- 24-06-22
A beautiful & at the same time troubling story
What a wonderfully touching story. Having also read ‘In Extremis’ I am increasingly aware of the sacrifices journalists who cover conflict make, just so that we, from the comfort of our safe and predictable lives, can know the truth about such frequently wanton destruction of the lives of those less safe than ourselves. We might not want to know and see the gory and distressing details but we must know, because if we turn away and bury our heads in the sand, none of the perpetrators will be held to account. Thank you Lara for taking the time and re-living many a deeply traumatic event, so that I may know the truth.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-01-22
Loved it
Absolutely loved it. Love and war indeed! Brilliant journalist and storyteller and voice. Will listen again
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- Anonymous User
- 14-03-22
his life lives on
delighted she read it herself. heartbreaking at times. wanted to give her a hug.
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- Jackie
- 09-08-24
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent...Isaacs Asimov
....a multilayered and informative book with views of war that allow the listener to consider other views and opinions with a reminder of how anger and hate flow from ignorance, intolerance,fear and greed...and a look at love at its happiest and saddest.
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- Joe Langford
- 13-01-22
A superb telling of War Journalism
Lara Marlowe is as great a Narrator as she is a writer of living history.. Merci
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- David
- 07-02-23
Devastating but in the end deeply moving
Much of this story describes the barbaric violence that contending tribes of humans have visited on each other -- the Lebanese Civil War, the Gulf War, the conflict amid the breakup of Yugoslavia, the civil war in Algeria and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For me, hearing a contemporaneous witness account presented a grimly circular narrative which seems to explain so much of the geopolitics of the present day. As the title promises, we watch the narrator fall for a man she deeply admires for braving dangers to speak truth and experience a love which is beset and ultimately doomed by the complications of personalities. A gripping story brought to life by its narrator, and told as though to a old friend.
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- Declan McNulty - Ireland
- 16-08-23
What it says on the tin and so much more.
I’m already looking forward to re-reading. Loved it. It has inspired me to also re-read Pity The Nation among others.
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