Dr Paul Moorcraft
Surrey, England
Film Maker, War Correspondent, Novelist, Editor
Biography/Resume:
Senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK. Freelance war correspondent for Time magazine, BBC and all major television channels. Paul Moorcraft has worked in thirty war zones over twenty years. Author of numerous books of military history, crime and politics. Published in 2002 - Guns and Poses: Travels with an Occasional War Correspondent and Anchoress of Shere, a novel set in the Middle Ages and the 1960s - critically acclaimed in the US e.g. starred review in US Publishers Weekly. He has also been an officer in paramilitary force, local councilor, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and editor of an international magazine Defence Review. In early 2002 he was 'chasing bin Laden' in Sudan and Afghanistan, an eyewitness to the siege of Jenin in Palestine and survived being a key-note speaker at a university feminist conference. He also runs a small publishing company. Subjects:
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Speaking Experience:
Broadcaster over thirty years, regularly for BBC. Anchored two of the top-rated TV shows in South Africa. Taught full time - journalism / politics / international relations at ten universities (including Distinguished Radford Visiting Prof in Journalism at Baylor University. Regular speaker at Literary Festivals such as a major spot at the 2002 Hay-on-Wye Festival during which he was 'live' on BBC Radio for 1 hour 40 minutes. Numerous Book Clubs, Military Academies etc. |