There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.