Toby Harnden (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Toby Harnden (born 1966) is a British journalist and author. He is the US editor of the Daily Telegraph.Born in 1966, he is originally from Manchester. He was awarded a First in Modern History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1988. Before becoming a journalist, Harnden spent nearly 10 years as an officer in the Royal Navy. He lives with his wife Cheryl and their daughter Tessa, born in June 2007, in Washington DC.Harnden began his career in journalism initially as a theatre reviewer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a writer of obituaries. He joined the Daily Telegraph in 1994 as a home news reporter before being posted to Belfast as the newspaper's Ireland Correspondent in 1996. He subsequently covered the Good Friday Agreement and the Omagh bombing of 1998 as well as numerous explosions, ceasefires, shootings, riots, marches and political crises. The culmination of his work in Northern Ireland was the publication of the bestselling "Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh."