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xxi, 540 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. Winner of the Orwell Special Prize, On the Front Line is a collection of her finest work, a portion of the proceeds from which will go to the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund. Marie Colvin held a profound belief in the pursuit of truth, and the courage and humanity of her work was deeply admired. On the Front Line includes her various interviews with Yasser Arafat and Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999 where she shamed the UN into protecting its refugees; accounts of her terrifying escape from the Russian army in Chechnya; and reports from the strongholds of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers where she was hit by shrapnel, leaving her blind in one eye. Typically, however, her new eye-patch only reinforced Colvin's sense of humour and selfless conviction. She returned quickly to the front line, reporting on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and, lately, the Arab Spring. Immediate and compelling, On the Front Line is a street-view of the historic events that have shaped the last 25 years, from an award-winning foreign correspondent and the outstanding journalist of her generation. |
| Contents |
IRAN-IRAQ WAR -- Basra: blitzed and battered, but not beaten (25 January 1987) -- Black banners of death fly over Baghdad (25 January 1987) -- Wine and lipstick lay Iran's ghost to rest (29 October 1989) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Soviet settlers jolted by the promised land (11 February 1990) -- Love sours for Romeo and Juliet of the West Bank (1 April 1990) -- Desperately seeking answers in the Arafat slipstream (5 June 1990) -- Home alone in Palestine (19 September 1993) -- Arafat thrives amid cut and thrust of peace (9 January 1994) -- LIBYA 1992-93 -- Frightened Libyans await the next blow (19 April 1992) -- Adie's minder cracks up (26 April 1992) -- Lockerbie drama turns to farce (3 October 1993) -- GULF WAR -- Under fire (27 January 1991) -- Ghosts of war stalk Basra's empty streets (23 August 1992) -- Critics are silenced as Saddam rebuilds Iraq (4 October 1992) -- Shadow of evil (22 January 1995) -- Blood feud at the heart of darkness (8 September 1996) -- MIDDLE EAST -- The Hawk who downed a dove (12 November 1995) -- Israel's peace hopes wither (2 June 1996) -- Israeli bulldozers rev up for showdown in Jerusalem (16 March 1997) -- Arafat encircled in battle for Jerusalem (6 April 1997) -- KOSOVO -- The centuries of conflict over a sacred heartland (8 March 1998) -- Kosovo's silent houses of the dead (15 March 1998) -- Kosovo guerrillas fight Serb shells with bullets (25 April 1999) -- Massacre in a spring meadow (2 May 1999) -- Letter from ... Kosare (4 June 1999) -- The neighbour who burned with hate (20 June 1999) -- British detectives on trail of men behind massacres (27 June 1999) -- The enemy within (15 August 1999) -- CHECHNYA -- Wrath of Moscow leaves no place for Chechens to hide (19 December 1999) -- Escape from Chechnya to a trial by ice (2 January 2000) -- EAST TIMOR -- Trapped by the terror squads in city of death (12 September 1999) -- Courage knows no gender (10 October 1999) -- ETHIOPIA -- Horror of Ethiopia's living dead (9 April 2000) -- ZIMBABWE -- Rape is new weapon of Mugabe's terror (28 May 2000) -- Hunzvi's surgery is turned into a torture centre (14 May 2000) -- SIERRA LEONE -- Drug-crazed warriors of the jungle (3 September 2000) -- How the hi-tech army fell back on law of the jungle and won (17 September 2000) -- SRI LANKA -- Fighting Tigers talk of peace deal (15 April 2001) -- "The shot hit me. Blood poured from my eye - I felt a profound sadness that I was going to die" (22 April 2001) -- Fighting back (15 July 2001) -- Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid (21 October 2001) -- MIDDLE EAST -- A bitter taste for vengeance (7 April 2002) -- Jenin: the bloody truth (21 April 2002) -- Two terrible deaths tell story of the Palestinian predicament (21 July 2002) -- GUANTANAMO -- Mindless torture? No, smart thinking (27 January 2002) -- IRAQ -- One call from the great dictator and another day of designer torture began in prison (4 August 2002) -- Why the great dictator thinks he can still win (2 March 2003) -- Hunt for Saddam & son, the murderous duo most wanted (23 March 2003) -- Target Saddam (21 December 2003) -- Iraq (7 March 2004) -- Face to face with death in a "pacified" Iraqi town (29 October 2006) -- The butcher of Baghdad awaits his death sentence (5 November 2006) -- "I watched Saddam die" (31 December 2006) -- Sunni sheikhs turn their sights from US forces to Al-Qaeda (9 September 2007) -- I felt a new terror on Basra's streets (16 December 2007) -- Saddam's victims left to suffer as henchmen prosper (3 February 2008) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Gaza's mourners plan "spectacular" revenge (28 March 2004) -- Into the underworld (17 July 2005) -- Bulldozer Sharon wins through, but bigger battles may lie ahead (21 August 2005) -- Fear and defiance in the battered city (16 July 2006) -- Birth, death and destruction on Lebanon's road to hell (30 July 2006) -- Gaza's deadly guardians (30 September 2007) -- IRAN -- Iran split as fun-hungry young spurn rigged poll (15 February 2004) -- Despair and fear among the Tehran dancing classes (26 June 2005) -- EGYPT -- Mubarak lights a democratic flame (4 September 2005) -- KOSOVO -- How one careless phone call ended Radovan Karadzic's liberty (27 July 2008) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Bloodied Gaza set for the endgame (11 January 2009) -- Beyond the violence, a solution is on the table (11 January 2009) -- Netanyahu stokes fears to take poll lead (8 February 2009) -- Israel's secret war (15 January 2012) -- IRAQ -- War-weary Iraqi voters catch election fever despite attacks (6 March 2010) -- US departure from Iraq opens the door for Al-Qaeda (22 August 2010) -- Terror returns to stricken Fallujah (29 August 2010) -- Battered Kurds attempt to cling on to city of oil (5 September 2010) -- AFGHANISTAN -- Corrupt, untrained, underpaid, illiterate (6 December 2009) -- Hamid Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms (31 January 2010) -- Swift and bloody (9 May 2010) -- Afghans find pride in hunt for Taliban (4 July 2010) -- IRAN -- Anger at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election (14 June 2009) -- Clashes show depth of fury (21 June 2009) -- EGYPT -- Flames and fighting flood along the Nile (30 January 2011) -- Raging mob bays for Mubarak's head (30 January 2011) -- I ran for my life from a crazed, cursing mob (6 February 2011) -- Egypt's bloody road to reform (6 February 2011) -- The kids triumph with Facebook and flyers (13 February 2011) -- Feral mobs and fanatics rule Terror Square (27 November 2011) -- LIBYA -- "I'll still be running Libya when my foes have retired," insists Gadaffi (6 March 2011) -- Siege falters as loyalists defect to side of rebel "rats" (15 May 2011) -- "We had our orders: rape all the sisters" (22 May 2011) -- Professor leads adopted sons into battle (29 May 2011) -- Mad Dog and me (28 August 2011) -- Killing rooms plot bloody retreat of troops loyal to Tyrant Jr (4 September 2011) -- Toxic tyrant's chemical cavern (11 September 2011) -- Desert storm flushes Gadaffi from oasis of dictator chic (25 September 2011) -- Brutal retaliation (23 October 2011) -- Libya keeps silence over vampire dictator's grave (30 October 2011) -- SYRIA -- "Bombs fell like rain. You could only pray" (5 February 2012) -- A vet is only hope for Syrian wounded (19 February 2012) -- Final dispatch from Homs, the battered city (19 February 2012) -- Marie Colvin: the last assignment / by Jon Swain (26 February 2012) -- "Reports of my survival have been exaggerated" / by Alan Jenkins. |
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Colvin, Marie.
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Women war correspondents -- United States.
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History, Modern -- 1989-
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War victims -- Anecdotes.
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Atrocities -- History -- 20th century.
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Colvin, Marie, 1956-2012.
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Oorlogscorrespondenten.
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| ISBN |
9780007487967 (pbk.) |
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0007487967 (pbk.) |
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