Book review: Account of Robert Fisk’s journalistic exploits a saga of love, courage, and heartache
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk stands in front of a damaged building in the Damascus suburb of Douma, during a tour by Syria’s Information Ministry to the town days after it was captured from rebels by Syrian government forces, April 16, 2018. Picture: Bassem Mroue/AP
IN June 1985, after the Air India crash off the coast of Cork, the BBC international correspondent Kate Adie was one of the first British journalists to arrive at the airport. The RAF had sent over two Chinook helicopters to help in the search for bodies.
One had just come back from the search area and had landed on the tarmac. “Come on,” Kate said to me. A British officer stopped us.
