Tim Marshall

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Tim Marshall (around 2015)

Tim Marshall (born May 1, 1959 in Leeds , England , United Kingdom ) is a British journalist and author. As a foreign policy expert , he worked for Sky News and the BBC .

life and work

Marshall worked for the BBC as a foreign correspondent . As part of this activity, he traveled to 30 countries and reported on political topics from there. These countries included the crisis areas of Israel , Kosovo , Syria and Afghanistan .

Tim Marshall runs the Foreign Matters blog , where he reports on foreign policy issues. The blog was nominated for the Orwell Prize 2016.

Marshall has written for The Times , The Sunday Times , The Guardian , Independent, and Daily Telegraph .

His 2015 book Prisoners of Geography was his biggest hit to date. In addition to the English original edition, editions have appeared in Germany, the USA, Taiwan, Japan and Turkey. In Great Britain the book reached number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list, in Germany under the title Die Macht der Geographie it was number 7 on the Spiegel bestseller list.

Publications

  • Shadowplay: The Inside Story Of The Overthrow Of Slobodan Milosevic (2002)
  • "Dirty Northern B * st * rds!" and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants (2014)
  • Prisoners of Geography (2015)
    • German (translation by Birgit Brandau): The power of geography. How world politics can be explained using 10 maps , dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28068-6
  • Worth Dying For. The Power and Politics of Flags (2016)
    • German (translation by Birgit Brandau): In the name of the flag. The power of political symbols , dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich2017, ISBN 978-3-423-28140-9
  • Divided. Why We're Living in an Age of Walls (2018)
    • German (translation by Hans-Peter Remmler): Isolation. The new power of the walls , dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28981-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b author's page at dtv-Verlag. Retrieved January 2, 2019
  2. ↑ About | Tim Marshall - The What and The Why. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ About | Tim Marshall - The What and The Why. Retrieved January 25, 2019 (UK English).
  4. ↑ Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography is a No. 1 bestseller | Elliott & Thompson. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ book report. Retrieved January 24, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Tim Marshall: Shadowplay: The Inside Story Of The Overthrow Of Slobodan Milosevic . 1 ed. BookBaby, January 3, 2002 ( amazon.com [accessed August 10, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Dirty Northern B * st * rds and Other Tales from the Terraces: the Story of Britain's Football Chants by Tim Marshall, review: 'clunking style' . In: Telegraph.co.uk . ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed August 10, 2017]).
  8. ↑ How ten cards explain world politics . In: stern.de . November 29, 2015 ( stern.de [accessed August 10, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Isolation - fences, walls, minefields . Süddeutsche Zeitung from September 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and expert on foreign affairs
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , England , UK