The role of narratives in the tragedies of war

Simon Sebag Montefiore: Investment banker, war correspondent, and foreign affairs journalist.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore has been, at different times, an investment banker, a war correspondent, and a foreign affairs journalist, all of which culminated in his remarkable career as an award-winning, bestselling author and one of the world’s preeminent historians.

As a war correspondent, he covered the conflicts in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and other places in the former Soviet Union as it collapsed.