War stories – how to bring the battle to the book

Report on the Polis Panel at the LSE Literary Festival By Bjork Kjaernested People have always been fascinated by war. But in the age of humanitarian interventions, multinational armies, governmental restrictions, intangible enemies and digital revolutions the world of the modern day war reporter is now considerably more complex than his historic counterpart. In such a complex environment, how can today’s journalists get to and report the truth?