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Christian Jennings is a foreign correspondent who has been covering military interventions, Special Forces operations and world conflicts for twelve years in thirteen different countries. He was based in Kosovo and the Balkans from 1999-2003 for The Economist and the Daily Telegraph.
Prior to this he spent four years in Central Africa from 1994-1998. He reported on genocide, civil war and humanitarian disasters for Reuters and as a freelancer from Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Congo. These experiences formed the basis of his acclaimed third book, Across the Red River.
He worked as an investigative journalist in London before this, notably for Granada TVs' World in Action. He co-authored a seminal investigative account of the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment and their fight for Mount Longdon in the Falkland Islands in 1982. This was published as Green-Eyed Boys.
Prior to this he spent eighteen months as a publishing publicist with Jonathan Cape and Fourth Estate, before which he had a brief military career as a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion and in the British Territorial Army. He is 41 and lives in London.
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