{"product_id":"in-extremis-the-life-and-death-of-the-war-correspondent-marie-colvin-paperback","title":"In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLindsey Hilsum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of November, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Bookshop Book of November, and one of the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e's Books to Read in November\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book,  Marie Colvin] has the full accounting that she deserves. --Joshua Hammer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film \u003ci\u003eA Private War\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. \u003ci\u003eIn Extremis\u003c\/i\u003e, written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling investigation into Colvin's epic life and tragic death based on exclusive access to her intimate diaries from age thirteen to her death, interviews with people from every corner of her life, and impeccable research. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter growing up in a middle-class Catholic family on Long Island, Colvin studied with the legendary journalist John Hersey at Yale, and eventually started working for \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London, where she gained a reputation for bravery and compassion as she told the stories of victims of the major conflicts of our time. She lost sight in one eye while in Sri Lanka covering the civil war, interviewed Gaddafi and Arafat many times, and repeatedly risked her life covering conflicts in Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and the Middle East. Colvin lived her personal life in extremis, too: bold, driven, and complex, she was married twice, took many lovers, drank and smoked, and rejected society's expectations for women. Despite PTSD, she refused to give up reporting. Like her hero Martha Gellhorn, Colvin was committed to bearing witness to the horrifying truths of war, and to shining a light on the profound suffering of ordinary people caught in the midst of conflict. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLindsey Hilsum's \u003ci\u003eIn Extremis\u003c\/i\u003e is a devastating and revelatory biography of one of the greatest war correspondents of her generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLindsey Hilsum\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eSandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the 2012 Guardian First Book Awar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772571713824,"sku":"9781250234841","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ee0e1cf6134242e9964fab8164d3ad4a.webp?v=1780408716","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-extremis-the-life-and-death-of-the-war-correspondent-marie-colvin-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}