Shadowplay: A Memoir From Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

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Appropriate medium & duration: (5/5)
As mentioned above, I thought the book was very engaging, so I think it’s just the right medium and duration to tell this story. This book is a memoir of the author’s experience as a journalist in the Kosovo war, but it also tries to be a lot more and fails pretty badly.

Shadowplay: A Memoir From Behind the Lines and Under Fire

The 10 Maps That Tell you Everything You Need to Know about Global Politics". Newsweek. 1 August 2015.

The Monocle Weekly: Stuart Semple, Tim Marshall and Anna Smith" ('...Tim Marshall discusses the history of flags...') Accessed 15 April 2017

Tim Marshall Quotes (Author of Prisoners of Geography) Tim Marshall Quotes (Author of Prisoners of Geography)

Marshall's blog, 'Foreign Matters', was short-listed for the Orwell Prize 2010. [8] In 2004 he was a finalist in the Royal Television Society's News Event category for his Iraq War coverage. He won finalist certificates in 2007, for a report on the Mujahideen, and in 2004 for his documentary 'The Desert Kingdom' which featured exclusive access to Crown Prince Abdullah and his palaces. When getting into that diplomatic territory, Marshall begins to quote a lot of unnamed inside sources, which may be unavoidable- but in fact he barely provides any sources at all, with a feeble bibliography. Another of his digressions from his own experience is his coverage of the ‘Bulldozer Revolution’, and though one can’t fault him for discussing the event despite his absence, he seems to draw everything all from one source. This does create a sense of emotional distancing, as this book focuses on the politics rather than the people affected on the ground, and it therefore runs in a different vein of war correspondence and journalism to the likes of Marie Colvin. However, when read interspersed with Colvin's collected writings on Kosovo, I found my view of the conflict enhanced dramatically.Marshall was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state-funded comprehensive school in the market town of Otley, near Leeds, West Yorkshire. Keith Simpson MP's Summer Reading List - 'Tim Marshall... timely reminder of the importance of geopolitics in Prisoners of Geography...' ". Accessed 15 April 2017