The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD from Sunday Times Bestselling Author and BBC Correspondent Fergal Keane

Reviews

George Larmour

With today’s sophisticated communications technology we have grown to expect instant news reports from war zones across the world and view the front lines of conflicts from the comfort of our cosy armchairs. But after finishing Fergal Keane’s book it confirms to me that we only see a sanitised, edited version of the carnage that such reporters and journalists have witnessed to bring us that news report. But for those like Fergal those harrowing images and nauseating aromas of death live on in their minds and continue to invade their lives.

My own experience of PTSD is nothing compared to what Fergal Keane outlines in graphic and honest detail in his book. George Larmour(Author of ‘They Killed the Ice Cream Man’)

Ever ready to re-appear without warning. The subject matter of his book is harrowing and to say I enjoyed reading it is the wrong phrase but I appreciated Fergal Keane’s honesty in baring his soul in print and providing us all with a better understanding of PTSD. We have come to recognise the familiar faces of many of those who talk to us on screen as they report what is unfolding against a backdrop of bullets and bomb blasts.