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    Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
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    Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

    By Tim Marshall

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    In his gripping new book The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World, Marshall digs deep into the past, present and future of the new ‘astropolitics’ that are set to change the face of life on Earth. Available to PRE-ORDER NOW in hardback, ebook and audio - out 27th April 2023

    When you see your nation’s flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?

    For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob.

    From the renewed sense of nationalism in China, to troubled identities in Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the symbols, old and new, that people are rallying round.

    In nine chapters (covering the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, international flags and flags of terror), Tim Marshall draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting experience to reveal the histories, the power and the politics of the symbols that unite us - and divide us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElliott & Thompson
    Release dateSep 22, 2016
    ISBN9781783962822
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    Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
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    Tim Marshall

    Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography, The Age of Walls, A Flag Worth Dying For, The Power of Geography, and The Future of Geography.

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    • 3/5
      Better than his flag book. There were a few things it made me think about that I'd not previously, not necessarily things I'd not have been able to conclude, but sometimes one needs prompting.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent socio-political-geographical-historical work by Tim Marshall. Part of his series, alongside "The Age of Walls" and "Prisoners of Geography". This is another brilliant piece of work that details the symbolism and meaning behind the flags of the world (starting with the US's Stars and Stripes, then Britain's Union Jack, and then detailing the various geographic areas with smaller sections provided for each country, and then providing a final coda for 'entity' flags like NATO, UN, the LBGQT "pride" flag, as well as the Red Cross/Crescent/Crystal and even the Jolly Roger).

      As well as being very enlightening on the flags, Marshall provides a great amount of background information on the countries/entities in question, the symbolism on the flag, how the flags are created/made, how the politics/governments designed the flags, who designed the flags, and what might lay in store in the future for the flags/countries/organizations.
    • 4/5
      I like Tim Marshalls books. He adds a fun element to the subjects. The flags he discusses are in a glossary at the end of the book. I would have preferred to embed the flags into the text while we read about them for convenience. Not a deal breaker. The book was great.