Lindsey Hilsum

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The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

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Produktbeschreibung

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story.

Fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum draws on unpublished diaries and interviews with friends, family and colleagues to produce a story of one of the most daring and inspirational women of our times.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year
'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYD

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473545380
• Artikelnr.: 45325288

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor for Channel 4 News in England. She has covered many of the major conflicts and international events of the last twenty-five years, including the wars in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq and Kosovo; the Arab Spring; and the genocide in Rwanda. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and Granta. Her first book, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution was short-listed for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS PREFACE xiii PART I : AMERICA 1. Dead Man
s Branch 3 2. Father and Daughter 26 3. Lovers and Mentors 51 PART II: MIDDLE EAST 4. The Path of Death 81 5. In a Man
s World 109 6. War, Peace, and Love 138 PART III: THE WORLD BEYOND 7. We
re Gonna Make You a Star 167 8. Leap Before You Look 196 9. The Face in the Mirror 229 PART IV: LONDON 10. All at Sea 261 11. A Reckless Tide 290 12. Baba Amr 319 Epilogue 345
REPORTS OF MY SURVIVAL MAY BE EXAGGERATED,
BY ALAN JENKINS 355 SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 357 INDEX 361

Rezensionen

An extraordinary account of one reporter's fearless and ultimately fatal dedication... Hilsum draws an empathetic portrait of a woman whose courage often crossed into recklessness, both in combat zones and outside them... Now, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book, Colvin has the full accounting that she deserves Joshua Hammer New York Times