Toby Harnden
Toby Harnden (born 14 January 1966)
Background
The son of architect Keith Anthony Harnden and Valerie Anne Steadman Harnden (nee Dixon),
Books
Harnden has written three non-fiction books: First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Mission to Avenge 9/11 (2021); Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan (2011); and Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh(1999).
Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh, published by
Dead Men Risen was published by
Main works
- First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11, Little, Brown, New York, 2021. ISBN 978-1-84916-421-4
- Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan, Quercus, London, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84916-421-4
- Bandit Country -The IRA and South Armagh, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999. ISBN 0-340-71736-X
Journalism career
Harnden spent 24 years with British newspapers, 19 of them as a foreign correspondent based in Washington D.C., the Middle East and London. He has interviewed three U.S. presidents: George W. Bush (in 2000 and 2014[29]).), Bill Clinton (in 2006[30]) and Jimmy Carter (in 2015[31]).
He started his career in journalism as a theatre reviewer at the
From 1999 to 2003, Harnden was Washington Bureau Chief of The Daily Telegraph. He reported from Washington during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Six months after 9/11, he spoke of his growing affinity with the United States, saying at a Brookings Institution forum: "There's a great difference at the moment between the language that's used in America and in Europe...Since September 11, I feel like I'm more like an American than a European...I find myself more and more having a problem with people in Europe. At least what you get here is people saying what they mean, which is what I find refreshing."[38] He became Middle East Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in October 2003 and was based in Jerusalem and then Baghdad. Harnden spent much of 2004 and 2005 covering the war in Iraq.[39] In November 2004, he was embedded with the US Army's Task Force 2-2 during the battle of Fallujah, including Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, later awarded the Medal of Honor.[40] Of Bellavia's platoon, Harnden reported: "With Dope's 'Die Motherfucker Die' blaring out from the psychological operations Humvee, the Terminators entered Fallujah to go about their business in the way they know best. They played 'Rage Against the Machine' in the backs of their Bradleys and enjoyed the buzz of killing. When it was over, they sat laughing about the insurgents who had jumped out of closets to fight them or wrapped themselves in curtains to hide. They joked about the cat they'd seen eating the face of a corpse, about the fighter who had been 'fragged' by a grenade and shot several times but who still managed to jump off a roof and escape. They celebrated victory but most of all they were intoxicated by being alive."[41]
Harnden joined
Harnden returned to Washington DC in May 2006 as a correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and in October 2006 became United States Editor of The Daily Telegraph.[45] He covered the 2008 primaries[46] and general election, traveling extensively as part of the Obama campaign press corps.[47]
He was shortlisted for the UK's Press Gazette for Digital Journalist of the Year 2008.[48] In 2011, he was ranked at 27 in a list of Top 50 most influential media users of Twitter in the UK.[49] He left the Telegraph at the end of 2011 to join the Daily Mail.[50] In January 2013, he joined The Sunday Times as Washington Bureau Chief [51] and spent almost six years as the newspaper's senior American correspondent, covering the Boston bombings,[52] unrest in Ferguson, Missouri,[53] the 2016 presidential election,[54] and the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.[55]
On 3 August 2021, two weeks before the collapse of Afghan forces and the return of the Taliban government, Harnden argued in a
References
- ^ "Toby Harnden Birth Notice" – via Scribd.
- ^ "Orwell Prize 2012 shortlists announced". Orwell Prize. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize for political writing". BBC News. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "First Casualty". Little, Brown.
- ^ "Toby Harnden Leaps to The Sunday Times".
- ^ "Opinion". The Daily Telegraph. 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016.
- ^ "Broken by Battle, Panorama – BBC World News". BBC.
- ^ a b c Nockels A. (ed.),"Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Supplement to the Biographical Register 1974-1991," Alden Press Ltd., Oxford, 1995, page 175
- ^ "People educated at St Bede's College, Manchester". Archived from the original on 27 January 2013.
- ^ Nockels A. (ed.), "Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Supplement to the Biographical Register 1974-1991," Alden Press Ltd., Oxford, 1995, page 175
- ^ "Dead Men Risen".
- ^ "Supplement". thegazette.co.uk. 24 October 1984.
- ^ "The Great Reindeer Round-Up!," Navy News, December 1987
- ^ Harnden, Toby (10 September 2011). "September 11: My life and the US changed forever". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "McCain's first ad of the general – Obama and Clinton hold secret, "cordial" summit Chez Feinstein – McCain's Kermit-the-frog-green backdrop – Obama Underoos – The next first lady's designer". Politico.
- ^ "16 days till Inauguration — Game on: The President-elect is scheduled to arrive at Andrews this evening — Plus 'Article of the Month'". Politico.
- ^ O'Brien, Tim; Arthur Beesley; Dan Keenan (4 December 2013). "Garda collusion found in IRA murders of RUC officers". The Irish Times.
- ^ Moloney, Ed (29 January 2014). "The IRA Did Have An Agent in the Dundalk Gardai". The Broken Elbow.
- ^ "Most Searched For Out-of-Print Books of 2016". Abebooks. 2016.
- ^ "David Keenan – Top 10 books about the Troubles". The Guardian.
- ^ "Peter Taylor's top 10 books on the Troubles". The Guardian.
- ^ ""Belmarsh Five" Trial – Guilty Verdicts". Irish Freedom Committee.
- ^ "Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan". Quercus. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Rayner, Gordon (3 March 2011). "MoD pays £150,000 to pulp Afghanistan book after bureaucratic blunder". The telegraph. London. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Dead Men Risen is Number Four in Sunday Times bestseller list". twitpic. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Toby Harnden – Dead Men Risen – Reviews". tobyharnden.com. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Orwell Prize 2012 shortlists announced". Orwell Prize. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan | 2012 BOOK PRIZE WINNER".
- ^ Harnden, Toby (16 November 2014). "Bush: Meet Bill, my brother from another mother". The Sunday Times.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (16 September 2006). "Bill Clinton on Tony and Gordon". The Spectator.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (12 July 2015). "Jimmy Carter: Let the Clintons make millions — he's happy with peanuts". The Sunday Times.
- ^ "Toby Harnden The Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe". The Scotsman.
- ^ "Obituary of Admiral Sir Richard Fitch". The Independent.
- ^ "Irish PM fingers Boss of 'New IRA'". Ottawa Citizen.
- ^ "Contempt charges dropped against Bloody Sunday journalist". The Guardian.
- ^ "Bloody Sunday inquiry drops action against journalist". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Saville Inquiry drops action against journalist". Irish Examiner.
- ^ Hess, Stephen, and Kalb, Marvin (ed.),"The Media and the War on Terrorism," Brookings Institution Press, 2003, pages 217-218
- ^ "Iraqis take lead insurgency role". Melbourne Age.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (15 November 2004). "Warriors spare a moment for the ones not going back". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "A cat ate the face of the corpse – Toby Harnden accompanies American troops as they fight the insurgents with everything they've got". The Spectator.
- ^ "Toby Harnden website biography".
- ^ "UK journalists 'leave Zimbabwe'". BBC News.
- ^ "British journalists appear in court in Zimbabwe". Guardian.
- ^ "Toby Harnden". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009.
- ^ "My Week: Toby Harnden | PressGazette". Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (5 November 2008). "Barack Obama heralds new era in Chicago's symbolic Grant Park". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "British Press Awards 2008: the shortlist". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Sedghi, Ami (7 November 2011). "The top 50 media users of Twitter: who is the most influential?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "Farewell to the Telegraph". The telegraph. London. 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Sean Ryan [@seanmatthewryan] (19 October 2012). "Toby Harnden @tobyharnden is Sunday Times Washington bureau chief from January. Christina Lamb returns to senior reporting role in London" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Cornered and bleeding heavily, he opened fire on the FBI". Sunday Times.
- ^ "'Hands up, don't shoot,' they cried. All hell let loose". Sunday Times.
- ^ "FBI hands Trump lifeline with Hillary email storm". Sunday Times.
- ^ "Las Vegas shooting: why did Stephen Paddock become a murderer?". Sunday Times.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (3 August 2021). "The U.S. Won Afghanistan Before Losing It". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Harnden,Toby (10 September 2021). "The Taliban Are Telling Us They Haven't Changed at All". The New York Times.
- ^ Fleming, Kirsten (22 September 2021). "My harrowing escape from Afghanistan — without any US government help". The New York Post.
External links
- Official website
- Toby Harnden's blog
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Official information page about 'Dead Men Risen'
- "Toby Harnden interview on Quercus Books website". Archived from the original on 28 October 2011.