Ian Mather has been a journalist for 48 years, most of the time as a foreign and defence correspondent for national newspapers. He is now an author, a freelance journalist and an international election monitor. He is married with three grown-up children and lives in Muswell Hill, London.

HOT WAR COLD WAR - History From a Reporter's Notebooks

Contents - Volume One

Contents - Volume Two

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Contents - Volume One     Introduction Ink in the Blood     Preface     1 Aden, September 1967 A Bloody Finale to British rule in Aden   2 Vietnam, February 1968 The Tet Offensive   3 Biafra, July 1968 War in Africa’s Land of the Rising Sun   4 Czechoslovakia, August 1968 The Russian Invasion   5 Jordan, September 1970 Civil War in Jordan   6 India, December 1971 India vs. Pakistan and the Birth of Bangladesh   7 Vietnam, May 1972 The Beginning of the End   8 Iceland, February 1976 The Cod War: consorting with the enemy   9 Vietnam, October 1977 Return to Vietnam   10 Central African Republic, December 1977 The Coronation of a Black Napoleon   11 Libya, September 1978 An Encounter with Colonel Gaddafi   12 Chile, November 1978 Chile versus Argentina at the End of the World   13 Pakistan, February 1979 Deathwatch in Pakistan   14 Iran, March 1979 Revolutionay Iran   15 Afghanistan, December 1979 I Counted the Russians into Afghanistan . . .     Tailpiece

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			FOR YOU THE WAR IS OVER
			During the Falklands War in 1982 Ian Mather, Defence Correspondent of The Observer, was arrested in Argentina. He was charged with espionage and locked up in Ushuaia Prison, Tierra Del Fuego - the most southerly prison in the world. This is his account of how he survived. It reveals how journalists are put in peril when governments blur the borderline between legitimate reporting and the murky world of espionage.