First Raise a Flag is a moving reflection on the meaning of nationalism, the power of hope and the endurance of the human spirit. His new book is entitled 'First Raise A Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost. Under his seasoned foreign correspondent’s gaze, he weaves with passion and colour the lively history of the world’s newest country. For the last decade, British journalist Peter Martell has covered the situation in South Sudan. Peter Martell has spent over a decade reporting from palaces and battlefields, meeting those who made a country like no other: warlords and spies, missionaries and mercenaries, guerrillas and gunrunners, freedom fighters and war crime fugitives, Hollywood stars and ex-slaves. Three years after independence, South Sudan was lowest ranked in the list of failed states. First Raise a Flag details one of the most dramatic failures in the history of international state-building. This is the story of an epic fight for freedom. Under his seasoned foreign correspondents gaze, he weaves with passion and colour the lively history of the worlds newest country. Many have fought, but South Sudan did the impossible, and won. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment. Both the flag bearers - M C Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh will be a part of the. Hailing from a Northumberland sheep farm, he started as a foreign correspondent in Zimbabwe.

Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa’s longest war, the continent’s biggest country split in two. When Mirabai Chanu steps on the dais to make her first lift in the Tokyo. Peter Martell reports on the Middle East and North Africa for AFP. When South Sudan’s war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut’s dream.

First Raise A Flag by Peter Martell