Under the Wire Marie Colvin's Final Assignment

Paul Conroy

eBook - 2013

The true story of iconic war correspondent Marie Colvin (called by her peers "the greatest war correspondent of her generation") featured in the film A Private War, produced by Charlize Theron and starring Rosamund Pike. Also the basis of the documentary Under the Wire. Marie Colvin was an internationally recognized American foreign war correspondent who was killed in a rocket attack in 2012 while reporting on the suffering of civilians inside Syria. She was renowned for her iconic flair and her fearlessness: wearing the pearls that were a gift from Yasser Arafat and her black eye-patch, she reported from places so dangerous no other correspondent would dare to go. Photographer Paul Conroy forged a close bond with Colvin as they p...ut their lives on the line time and time again to report from the world's conflict zones, and he was by her side during her final assignment. A riveting war journal, Under the Wire is Paul's gripping, visceral, and...

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Published
Hachette Books
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Conroy
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9781602862371
Release Date10/8/2013
Kindle Book
ASINB00E257T8A
Release Date10/8/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781602862371
Release Date10/8/2013