Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags - from the author of the global bestseller Prisoners of Geography

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The question remains, who owns the Palestinian flag — the PLO or the Palestinian people? Palestinian academic Dr Mahdi Abdul Hadi argued against a former Israeli ban on the flag saying it was not the sole property of Arafat’s movement. That led him to admit that the PLO has no flag of its own.

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Where did these national symbols, to which we are so attached, come from? Flags are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history. Standards and symbols painted on cloth predate flags and were used by the ancient Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Romans, but it was the invention of silk by the Chinese that allowed flags as we know them today to flourish and spread. Traditional cloth was too heavy to be held aloft, unfurled and fluttering in the wind, especially if painted; silk was much lighter and meant that banners could, for example, accompany armies onto battlefields.Tim Marshall is reported to be a supporter of Leeds United - on Politics Live on 22 February 2022, a Leeds United logo was visible. In his book Shadowplay: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War, Marshall says that he was supporting Bayern Munich in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final against Manchester United because he was a Leeds United supporter. During over twenty-four years at Sky News, Marshall reported from thirty countries and covered the events of twelve wars. He has reported from Europe, the United States, (covering three US Presidential Elections), and Asia, as well as from the field in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. He spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombing raids. He was in Kosovo on the day NATO troops advanced into Pristina.

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Aaron Retica of The New York Times gave a mixed review, finding the book to be overreaching in some of its interpretations of flags, such as the Flag of Europe or that of the Islamic State. He criticised the inclusion of the flags of Israel, Iran and Turkey in the "Colors of Arabia" chapter, but found the book to offer a "surprising fact or six along the way", such as Gilbert Baker finding inspiration for the LGBT Rainbow flag from the United States Bicentennial. [2]Marshall’s style is incredibly easy to read and explains things in just the right detail so you’re not entirely in the deep end for any novices (like me) yet doesn’t get repetitive, so it certainly would be suitable for anyone interested in learning more about history and well flags. Worth Dying For concludes with a survey of transnational banners from the Jolly Roger and the Red Cross to the notional International Flag of Planet Earth. The latter seems a distant dream. As to why nationalism remains so buoyant, in Bob Dylan’s words and with Marshall’s book to hand, well, “the answer is blowing in the wind”. What can be learned about flags from the point of opening the cover is a simple listing of the meanings of colors, research that could easily be completed in an hour on wikipedia. Worth Dying For - The Power & Politics Of Flags [20] [21] - is a book which covers the symbolism, culture and history behind the world's flags. Published by Elliott & Thompson (2016) You can see it from a distance and you need no education. You just know what it is the moment you see it, which is partially the definition of a flag that works."