Burning Desert
A Cameraman in the Gulf War
$52.62
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2026
Summary
In this high-octane and slightly sideways look at life on the coalface of Television News in the heady period of the late eighties/early nineties, one thing stands out: the competition had never been fiercer, and the wallets never fatter. In the light of a new dawn in television, the satellite age, Britain’s first ever twenty-four-hour TV News Channel punches its way from its shell and spreads its tender wings.
This hugely expensive and risky venture, bankrolled by the mighty Murdoch …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036187729 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036187721 |
| Author: | Tom Radburn |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Tom Radburn
Tom Radburn was a senior staff news cameraman for Sky News for thirty years. In that time he covered almost every major news story worldwide.
From standing on the wreckage of the Twin Towers days after that tragic event to arriving in Paris hours after the death of Princess Diana. He was the first British cameraman to enter Kuwait City on the day of its liberation in 1991 and shot the exclusive pictures of the raising of the Kuwait flag inside liberated Kuwait. He was the first to shoot video footage of the infamous ‘Highway of Death’ and it was his pictures of that untouched scene that the world saw first.
He covered all of the Balkan wars: Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo. Wars in Africa: Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda. Wars in the Middle East: Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. He met Colonel Gaddafi in his desert hideout, filmed Saddam Hussein at one of his legendary military rallies in Mosul, Iraq, and flew with Yasser Arafat to Washington when he signed the Middle East peace agreement with Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton in 1993.
From 1988 to 2018, from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland, if it was happening somewhere, then Tom Radburn was sent there.
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