The Only House Left Standing

The Only House Left Standing - The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall: The Journals of Tom Hurndall

Tom Hurndall (author), Robert Fisk (author)

The unfolding events in the run up to the Iraq war had given Tom Hurndall, a 21-year-old British photojournalist, an increased curiosity and desire to journey to the Middle East. In February 2003, initially as an observer alongside the Human Shields, he left with a passion to make a difference, to record and photograph the truth for himself. We follow his journey first from Baghdad, then to Amman and the Al-Rweished refugee camp in Jordan, and finally on to the town of Rafah in Gaza close to the Egyptian border, where US peaceworker Rachel Corrie had been killed just weeks previously. On April 11th, unarmed and wearing an internationally recognizable orange peacekeeper jacket, he was shot in the head by an IDF sniper while carrying Palestinian children to safety. He died nine months later in a London hospital. The book follows Toms life and thoughts in the final weeks leading up to the shooting. Motivated by a sense of injustice and striving to remain objective we are drawn into his increasingly serious photographs and words, through extracts from his diary, emails and poems. It is realised through collaboration with the Hurndall family, and follows the 2008 BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 film The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall.

Tom Hurndall was a young British photojournalist, who was fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003. His photographs and diary from his Middle East trip form the basis of this book. Robert Fisk is a highly acclaimed British war correspondent and writer based in Beirut. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States war in Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trolley; illustrated edition (20 Jan. 2012)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781904563518
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 26.8 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm