For journalists, hotels are an important part of the infrastructure required to report from warzones.

Kenneth Morrison is a Professor of Modern Southeast European History at De Montfort University in the UK. He is the author of five books on the modern... history of the Western Balkans including 'Nationalism, identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro' and is also the co-author (with Paul Lowe) of ‘Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo’.
For journalists, hotels are an important part of the infrastructure required to report from warzones.
From the use of armoured cars and flak jackets to digital technology and live satellite broadcasts.
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From famous ‘war hotels’ in Beirut and Baghdad, Saigon and Sarajevo to those now being transformed into field hospitals.