The First Draft
Jason Burke describes how war correspondents benefit from a knowledge of history, and how history might benefit from their work in turn.
A month ago, sitting on a straw stool in a small road-side stall in northwestern Pakistan, I was struck by a four-line article in a local newspaper. The government of the North West Frontier Province, it said, had decided finally to remove the old tank barriers from the Khyber Pass. I smoothed the paper out beside my chapati and dahl and reread it and felt a twinge of nostalgia.
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