Dominic Streatfeild
Encyclopedia
Dominic Streatfeild is an author, freelance journalist and documentary maker based in the UK who specialises in military and security issues.
’s clandestine war for the Falkland Islands
and exposing the real reasons for the loss of , the Discovery Channel’s series Age of Terror, examining the roots of political violence and a 2010 documentary for the Discovery Channel Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story detailing the attempts to rescue 33 Chilean Miners trapped in the Copiapó mine.
His first book Silk Route by Rail (ISBN 1873756143, Trailblazer Publications, 1997) took Streatfeild a year to write and in its second edition was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Streafeild's second book Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography (ISBN 9780753506271, Virgin Books, 2002) described the fascinating and disturbing rise and rise of cocaine from the chewing of coca leaves to the by South American peoples to the illegal trade in cocaine today. The life of George Jung one of the more colourful characters in the book, was dramatised in the film Blow starring Johnny Depp.
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
(ISBN 0340831618, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) is Streatfeild's third book and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Award in 2007. Inspired by John Mark
's 1979 book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Streatfeild investigated the reality of brainwashing. The book is currently recommended as part of The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf by the CIA.
Streatfeild's latest book, A History of the World since 9/11 (ISBN 9781843547662, Atlantic Books, 2011), published in February 2011, explores through a series of interlinked chapters detailing how people across the globe have been affected by the US response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in September 2001. A chapter from this book, (Stuff Happens), was published in the Guardian Newspaper in January 2011 detailing the failure of US Forces to secure the explosives from the weapons store at Al Qa'qaa.
Documentary Work
Streatfeild's television work includes BBC2’s Exocet detailing MI6 and the SASSpecial Air Service
Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...
’s clandestine war for the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...
and exposing the real reasons for the loss of , the Discovery Channel’s series Age of Terror, examining the roots of political violence and a 2010 documentary for the Discovery Channel Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story detailing the attempts to rescue 33 Chilean Miners trapped in the Copiapó mine.
Background
Streatfeild studied at Kings College London, has served in the British Armed Forces, worked for the BBC and as an independent documentary maker and journalist.His first book Silk Route by Rail (ISBN 1873756143, Trailblazer Publications, 1997) took Streatfeild a year to write and in its second edition was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Streafeild's second book Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography (ISBN 9780753506271, Virgin Books, 2002) described the fascinating and disturbing rise and rise of cocaine from the chewing of coca leaves to the by South American peoples to the illegal trade in cocaine today. The life of George Jung one of the more colourful characters in the book, was dramatised in the film Blow starring Johnny Depp.
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control is a 2006 non-fiction book published by Hodder & Stoughtonabout the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War through to today’s War on Terror. The author, Dominic Streatfeild,...
(ISBN 0340831618, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) is Streatfeild's third book and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Award in 2007. Inspired by John Mark
John Mark
John Mark is a character in the New Testament. According to William Lane, an "unbroken tradition" identifies him with Mark the Evangelist. John Mark is mentioned several times in the Acts of the Apostles...
's 1979 book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Streatfeild investigated the reality of brainwashing. The book is currently recommended as part of The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf by the CIA.
Streatfeild's latest book, A History of the World since 9/11 (ISBN 9781843547662, Atlantic Books, 2011), published in February 2011, explores through a series of interlinked chapters detailing how people across the globe have been affected by the US response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in September 2001. A chapter from this book, (Stuff Happens), was published in the Guardian Newspaper in January 2011 detailing the failure of US Forces to secure the explosives from the weapons store at Al Qa'qaa.
External Links
- www.dominicstreatfeild.com
- My deal with old king coke, Dominic Streatfeild, Guardian/The Observer, 20 May 2001
- The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World, Tom Feiling, The Guardian, Saturday 5 September 2009
- How to turn a human into a robot, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Telegraph, 30 July 2006
- Cocaine: Hidden in Plain Sight, Melena Ryzik, New York Times, June 10, 2007
- How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory The Guardian, 7 January 2011
- Arizona, arms and Aussie-style boozing New Statesman, 20 January 2011
- US pilot training 'inadequate' Thomas Harding, The Telegraph, 10th February 2007
- You can't program politics Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, 13 August 2006