On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
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RECIPIENT OF THE ORWELL SPECIAL PRIZE 2013Marie Colvin was the outstanding journalist of her generation. Recognised for her fearless pursuit of the truth, her courage and the humanity of her reporting, On the Front Line is a collection of her finest work, proceeds for which will go to the charitable Trust set up in her memory.Marie Colvin, who was killed in shellfire on 22 February 2012 whilst covering the uprising in Syria, was a fearless, passionate foreign correspondent, a veteran of many conflicts from around the world with a profound belief that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and a powerful compulsion to go to places where bad things were happening. Often the first to arrive and the last to leave, her insistence on experiencing the risks of those she wrote about led to a vast portfolio of work for the Sunday Times – particularly on the Middle East, and on the human toll of war.But Marie Colvin was no hard-bitten cynic and combined her fearless pursuit of the truth with an immense love of life – sailing, friendship, children, parties – which gave her an ebullient charm, and her writing a powerful human depth.On the Front Line collects the finest pieces of Marie’s journalism starting with her coverage of the 1986 US bombing of Libya; interviews with Yasser Arafat; her reports from East Timor in 1999 when her refusal to leave shamed the UN into staying and the international community into forcing the Indonesians to give the refugees safe passage. Here too is her account of her terrifying escape from the Russians, across the freezing Chechen mountains, and her reports from the strongholds of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka where she was hit by shrapnel in her left eye, losing her sight.Her death has robbed the world of a multi-prize-winning journalist and the victims of war have lost one of their most powerful advocates.

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Marie Colvin. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

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Copyright

Epigraph

The Marie Colvin Memorial Fund

Contents

FOREWORD

PART ONE

Iran–Iraq War

Middle East

Libya

Gulf War

Middle East

Kosovo

Chechnya

East Timor

PART TWO

Ethiopia

Zimbabwe

Sierra Leone

Sri Lanka

Middle East

Guantanamo

Iraq

Middle East

Iran

Egypt

Kosovo

PART THREE

Middle East

Iraq

Afghanistan

Iran

Egypt

Libya

Syria

MARIE COLVIN: THE LAST ASSIGNMENT

‘REPORTS OF MY SURVIVAL MAY BE EXAGGERATED’

Tributes

About the Publisher

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The Collected Journalism

of Marie Colvin

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The key to the revival is Saddam. According to those around him, he did not even falter in the face of devastation so massive that allied leaders believed his downfall to be inevitable. Saddam never, ever, gives up, they say. This mentality was a liability during the Gulf crisis, when he refused to leave Kuwait, but it was crucial to the rebuilding of Iraq. He went from the Mother of all Battles to the Mother of all Reconstructions without missing a beat.

Saddam emerged unrepentant from his bunker and ready to rebuild. The 53-year-old president knows his people well. He needed to remove the daily reminders of the war, and his responsibility for it. ‘I don’t want to see any war damage in the capital,’ an Iraqi official quoted him as saying. In a dictatorship as absolute as Iraq, such an order concentrates the mind. Construction crews began working 24 hours a day, even on Saturday, the Muslim Sabbath.

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