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{.fusion-title.fusion-title-1{margin-top:40px!important;margin-bottom:!important;}}</style><div class="fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><h1 class="title-heading-left" style="margin:0;">Books</h1></div><div class="fusion-sep-clear"></div><div class="fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep" style="margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;width:100%;"></div><div class="fusion-sep-clear"></div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-1" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>All Necessary Means – Co-written with Ben Brown, this was an inside account of the reality behind the first Gulf War, BBC Books 1991</p> <p>The Sorcerer’s Challenge – Revelations about the strange and terrible weapons of the future, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.</p> <p>Tomorrow’s War – US edition of The Sorcerer’s Challenge, Harcourt Brace, 1995.</p> <p>Reporting live from the end of the world – My behind-the-scenes 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