All of These People: A Memoir

All of These People: A Memoir
Fergal Keane

In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal.During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour, the horror of genocide and the bravery of peacekeepers faced with overwhelming odds. As one of the BBC's leading correspondents, he recounts extraordinary encounters on the front lines. Alongside his often brutal experiences in the field, he also describes unflinchingly the challenges and demons he has faced in his personal life growing up in Ireland.Keane’s existence as a war reporter is all that we imagine: frantic filing of reports and dodging shells, interspersed with rest in bombed-out hotels and concrete shelters. Life in such vulnerable areas of the globe is emotionally draining, but full of astonishing moments of camaraderie and human bravery. And so this is also a memoir of the human connections, at once simple and complex, that are made in extreme circumstances. These pages are filled with the memories of remarkable people. At the heart of Fergal Keane's story is a descent into and recovery from alcoholism, spanning two generations, father and son; a different kind of war, but as much part of the journey of the last twenty-five years as the bullets and bombs.

All of these people

A Memoir

Fergal Keane

For My Parents

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ucc1f5d09-f44c-57fc-9087-a96165b0ce66)

Title Page (#u52d57876-5c6d-5999-8952-1b91f5fd9fb9)

Dedication (#udc5ca908-ffdb-5ea2-868c-f6a1fb408077)

PROLOGUE (#ucc185917-5bb8-5aa3-9d99-d6fb18289dc4)

CHAPTER ONE Echoes (#ua93d9ab7-921b-5912-961e-15842bf667e6)

CHAPTER TWO Homeland (#u9d164092-50ed-5992-8848-17e586723935)

CHAPTER THREE The Kingdom (#ua5d06d4f-7875-5ecc-a1c8-55f187fec7a0)

CHAPTER FOUR Tippler (#u41172439-4f37-5b45-b346-f54018d13f0f)

CHAPTER FIVE Shelter (#u99aff9e1-bb79-5056-9cab-65b17c6973c5)

CHAPTER SIX ‘Pres’ Boy (#ud213bcf6-2011-547b-afa6-7fab6ebb1f8f)

CHAPTER SEVEN The junior (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHT Local Lessons (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE Short Takes (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN Into Africa (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Land That Happened Inside Us (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE Cute Hoors (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN North (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Marching Seasons (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Visitor (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Journey Back (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Beloved Country (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN People Are People (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINETEEN Limits (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY Valentina (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Witness (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Consequences (#litres_trial_promo)

P.S. (#litres_trial_promo)

About the author (#litres_trial_promo)

From Our Own Correspondent (#litres_trial_promo)

LIFE at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)

Top Ten Favourite Books (#litres_trial_promo)

A Writer’s Life (#litres_trial_promo)

About the book (#litres_trial_promo)

In the Bone Shop of the Heart: Writing All of These People (#litres_trial_promo)

Read on (#litres_trial_promo)

Have You Read? (#litres_trial_promo)

If You Loved This, You Might Like… (#litres_trial_promo)

EPILOGUE A Last Battle (#litres_trial_promo)

INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)