Peter Beaumont, Foreign Affairs Editor of The Observer, has covered a wide range of conflicts across Europe, Africa and the Middle East since joining the paper in 1989. The Secret Life of War is his attempt to distil this experience of war, focusing on the human impact on combatants, civilians and the journalists who observe them.

May 2009

Death at Wireless Ridge

Cheering for Hitler

Road to Abbottabad

‘A Wilderness of Wreckage’

Fighting Trauma

Goodbye to Helmand

Inside Jobs

Horror in Iraq

Murkywater

Mostly Bricks

Counting the Cost

An Occupation in Pieces

The Case for Intervention

All We Ever Do Is Fight

The Drone Delusion

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