Article: AN INTERMINGLING SAGA OF EUROPE, ASIA IN 'BLACK SEA'.(SPOTLIGHT)(Review)

Article: Interview: Neal Ascherson: Blood out of the stones ...
Scotland on Sunday;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... home, the award-winning Scottish writer and journalist Neal Ascherson seems somehow distracted. Even when engaged in conversation ... he sees Stone Voices as a companion volume to his earlier Black Sea, a study of history, archaeology and ecology. "They ...

Article: Books: Shipwreck and salvage Neal Ascherson plunges ...
The Independent - London;  March 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... read: Gunter Grass) who knew Tulla in Danzig. It's an arch device, not necessary to this cool and compelling work of piety to the forgotten past. Neal Ascherson's new book is `Stone Voices: the search for Scotland' (Granta)

Article: Critics' choice: Neal Ascherson: Books
Scotland on Sunday;  April 20, 2003 ;     417 words ...NEAL ASCHERSON Ascherson tackled everything from the parlous state of public housing to the decline of the Scots language in his book Stone Voices ...

Article: Western pretence in Bosnia has been exposed. Neal ...
The Independent - London;  July 16, 1995 ;     700+ words ...PRESIDENT Chirac of France says that the Srebrenica crisis is like "appeasement". The miserable response of the Western democracies to the fall of the Bosnian enclaves reminded him, he said on Thursday, of Chamberlain and Daladier in 1938, devising reasons not to stand up to Hitler over the

Article: BOOKS: Witness from the savage zone The Great War for ...
The Independent on Sunday;  October 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Robert Fisk is the sort of reporter who walks in the opposite direction. I first came across him as an absence, 30 years ago in Belfast. We, the pack, had spent the day waiting for the big Paisley briefing, but where was Bob? It turned out that he had gone off alone to the battlefield of the Boyne,

Article: 'The Turks brought whole families up here to kill them' Robert ...
The Independent on Sunday;  October 16, 2005 ;     617 words ...Exposed to the air, the bones became soft and claylike and flaked away in our hands, the last mortal remains of an entire race of people disappearing as swiftly as their Turkish oppressors would have wished us to forget them. As many as 50,000 Armenians were murdered in this little killing field,

The Black Sea: a History.(Book Review)
History Today;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... called Crimean War), the Black Sea region has provided many lessons ... get your merchandise to the Black Sea and you could get it anywhere ... involvement or discursive insights of Neal Ascherson's Black Sea (1995). King is even-handed ...