Moorcraft - Omar Al-Bashir and Africas longest war

Some of Paul Moorcrafts other books on military topics

A Short Thousand Years: The End of Rhodesias Rebellion (1979)

Contact 2: The Struggle for Peace (1981)

Africa s Superpower (1982)

African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa, 1945-2010 (1994)

Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2005)

The New Wars of the West (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2006)

Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (2010)

Shooting the Messenger: The Politics of War Reporting (with Phil Taylor) (2011)

The Rhodesian War: A Military History (with Peter McLaughlin) (2011)

Mugabes War Machine (2011)

Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers (2012)

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About the Author

Professor Paul Moorcraft, an internationally respected expert on crisis communications, especially relating to military and security issues, has worked for Time magazine, the BBC and most of the Western TV networks as a freelance producer/war correspondent as well as lecturing full-time (consecutively) at ten major universities in journalism, politics and international relations. He has worked in thirty war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, often with irregular forces. Most recently he has been operating in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Nepal, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, Turkey and Sri Lanka.

Dr Moorcraft is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He also worked in Corporate Communications in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. The Ministry of Defence recalled him for six months during the Iraq War in 2003.

The author of a wide range of books on military history, politics and crime, Dr Moorcraft is a regular broadcaster (BBC TV and radio, as well as Sky, A1 Jazeera, etc.) and op-ed writer for major international newspapers (the Guardian, New Statesman, Washington Times, Canberra Times, Business Day, Western Mail etc.). One of his recent books is Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (Pen and Sword, 2005). An updated version, The New Wars of the West, was published by Casemate in the US in 2006. His Shooting the Messenger: The Politics of War Reporting (Potomac, Washington, 2008) was co-authored with Professor Phil Taylor. An updated version was released in 2011 (Biteback, London). The Rhodesian War: A Military History (with Dr Peter McLaughlin) was first published by Pen and Sword books in 2008. Mugabes War Machine (Pen and Sword) came out in 2011. The Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: A Rare Victory of Sri Lanka s Long War was released in various editions by Pen and Sword in 2013-14. Three volumes of memoirs have been published, the most recent being Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (Biteback, London, 2010). Dr Moorcraft is an award-winning novelist as well as an author of educational publications related to his charity work (It Just Doesnt Add Up: Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults, Filament, Croydon, 2014).

Professor Moorcraft has visited Sudan, including all the war zones, especially Darfur, on more than twenty (often extended) occasions since 1996. He has interviewed many of the key players on all sides of the various conflicts while producing a series of documentaries for UK and US TV networks. He was head of mission, for fifty international observers, during the 2010 election. Professor Moorcraft was also given unrivalled access to President al-Bashir. His latest visit to Sudan, and interviews with al-Bashir, was in January 2014.

Paul Moorcraft is the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London, and visiting professor at Cardiff Universitys School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Europes leading journalism centre.

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