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Stories of the front line and home front. Dispatches from Enugu 1967; Vietnam 1970; Iraq 1984; Taliban-ruled Kabul; Rwanda 1994; East Timor 1999; Syria 2012 and Uganda 2013.

Over sixty years, reports for From Our Own Correspondent have tried to go beyond the headlines, and the tactical advances, to tell the human stories of war. Pascale Harter introduces a compilation of dispatches from the front line and home front in the programme's archives. With contributions from Enugu 1967; Vietnam 1970; Iraq 1984; Taliban-ruled Kabul; Rwanda 1994; East Timor 1999; Syria 2012 and Uganda 2013.

(Photo: American combat helicopters fly over South Vietnam during Operation Pershing, 1967. Credit: Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

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