Jonathan Steele

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Jonathan Steele is a British journalist and an author of several books on international affairs.

Steele was educated at King's College, Cambridge (BA) and Yale University (MA). He has reported on Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, and other countries. He was Washington Bureau Chief, Moscow Bureau Chief, and Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian. He is currently a columnist for that newspaper on international affairs. In January 2008 his book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq was published by I.B. Tauris in the UK and Counterpoint in the US.

In 2006, Steele won a Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism Special Award in honor of his career contributions.^[1]

Works

The South African Connection: Western Investment in Apartheid (with Ruth First and Christabel Gurney) 1972
Socialism with a German Face 1977
Superpowers in Collision: The New Cold War (with Noam Chomsky and John Gittings) 1983
Andropov in Power (with Eric Abraham) 1983
Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy from Brezhnev to Andropov 1983
Eternal Russia; Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy 1994
Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq, 2008.
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, 2011.

Personal life

Jonathan has a wife Ruth. They live in London, and have two children, and four grandchildren, Sumaya, Pravin, Leah and Amos

References

↑ "Previous Winners". The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Retrieved May 27, 2013.

External links

Profile from the Guardian

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Name	Steele, Jonathan
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Short description	British journalist
Date of birth	1941
Place of birth	Oxford, England
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