Patrick Cockburn
Auteur de The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
A propos de l'auteur
Patrick Cockburn is the Iraq correspondent for The Independent in London.
Crédit image: Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Œuvres de Patrick Cockburn
War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran (2020) 69 exemplaires
Origem do Estado Islamico, A: O Fracasso da Guerra ao Terror e a Ascensao Jihadista (2015) 5 exemplaires
Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe 1 exemplaire
Et attentat mod Bushs strategi 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Verso 2015 Mixtape — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- COCKBURN, Patrick
- Date de naissance
- 1950-03-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- County Cork, Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- County Cork, Ireland
Moscow, Russia
Washington, DC, USA - Études
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
Glenalmond College, Perthshire, Scotland, UK - Professions
- journalist
- Relations
- Montefiore, Janet (wife)
Cockburn, Claud (father)
Cockburn, Patricia (mother)
Cockburn, Andrew (brother)
Cockburn, Alexander (brother)
Caudwell, Sarah (half-sister)
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 21
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 891
- Popularité
- #28,765
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 69
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 3
Quite an interesting family though, Anglo-Irish aristocrats, with many notable forbears. Although this particular branch of the family were mostly broke despite living in a grand (but decrepit) country house. Patrick's father was an important leftwing journalist in the UK, and his older brother Alexander ditto but here in the US for much of his career. Lots of recognizable literary characters show up (and lots of politifcal and aristocratic ones that I guess you'd have to be British to know of). I have a soft spot for Ireland and its history and ditto the UK, so I found it all entertaining, in a sort of Downton-Abbey-without-the-jewels-and-gowns way. But I was disappointed that it didn't really cut it as a memoir of living with polio. Maybe Patrick Cockburn is just too much the reticent (Irish-)Englishman.… (plus d'informations)