On the front line : the collected journalism of Marie Colvin.: the collected journalism of Marie Colvin. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Colvin, Marie
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Harper Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 540 pages), illustrations, portraits
• Subjects: 904.7; Women war correspondents -- United States; History, Modern -- 1989-; War victims -- Anecdotes; Atrocities -- History -- 20th century; Atrocities; History, Modern; War victims; Women war correspondents; Torture -- États-Unis; Femmes et guerre; Correspondants de guerre -- Récits personnels; Guerre Irak-Iran (1980-1988) -- Récits personnels; Guerre du golfe Persique (1990-1991) -- Récits personnels; Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1995) -- Récits personnels; Conflits de basse intensité -- Afrique -- Récits personnels -- 1990- ...; Guerre du Kosovo (1998-1999) -- Récits personnels; Relations internationales -- 1989- ...; Oorlogscorrespondenten; United States; Sri Lanka -- 1983- ... (Guerre civile) -- Récits personnels; Tchétchénie (Russie) -- 1999- ... (Guerre russo-tchétchène) -- Récits personnels; Afghanistan -- 2001- ... (Guerre d'Afghanistan) -- Récits personnels; Electronic books; Anecdotes; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780007487974; 0007487975
• Related ISBNs: 9780007487967; 0007487967
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