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|title=Frontline
|author=David Loyn
|reviewer=Jill Conor Murphy
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Wonderful stuff, written with great affection and conviction. You couldn't make these stories up. Frontline is a gripping, flowing read, full of Boy's Own adventure stories. It's also a powerful defence of independent journalism. You can't help feeling that TV news is the poorer for Frontline's demise.
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=480
|publisher=Penguin
|date=August 2006
|isbn=0141017848
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I absolutely loved it. There. Review over. Buy the book.
You can keep up with Frontline's new endeavours in the sphere of online news reporting at [http://www.frontlinetv.com www.frontlinetv.com]. I hope it succeeds.
If you like the sound of Frontline, you may also like [[''The Sewing Circles Of Herat '' by Christina Lamb]], a lyrical book about Afghanistan.
(This book was kindly forwarded to Bookbag for review by Penguin Books.)
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= I almost went and bought it straight away, Jill. You have such effect on me.
I think our society today needs people whose claim to heroism is more that just surviving one or another form af emotional calamity and who are brave in a more, ahem, traditional style rather than for example 'brave' enough to publicly disclose sordid details of their terrible addiction to bingo and toasted marshmallows.
I am getting too serious. Night night.
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|name=Duncan Howarth
|verb=said
|comment= A most interesting review, Jill, and it sounds like a book worth reading. I don't know if you've also read Jeremy Bowen's recently published "War Stories", which covers much the same ground though from the viewpoint of a BBC correspondent; it's not only the freelances who take risks in combat zones.
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|name=Sue
|verb=said
|comment= Simon and Schuster actually sent us a review copy, Duncan and you'll find our review [[War Stories|here]].
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