The Wake of War - Hardcover

Nivat, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807002402 ISBN 13: 9780807002407

Publisher: Beacon Press, 2005

Synopsis

The acclaimed journalist shares her experiences traveling in both Iraq and Afghanistan after the outbreak of war in those countries, sharing the conversations she had with teachers, political leaders, engineers, and ex-soldiers.

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About the Author

Anne Nivat is an award-winning journalist and author. She covered the Chechen war for the French daily Libération and is currently the Moscow correspondent for Ouest-France. Artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 2004, Nivat has written pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune and has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, The Connection, and PBS's NewsHour, as well as other radio and TV programs. She holds a doctorate in political science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. In 2001, she received the SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award at The Johns Hopkins University. For her first book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya, which won the Albert Londres Prize in 2000, Nivat disguised herself as a Chechen woman and traveled to the war-torn region despite a Russian ban on journalists. Also the author of The View from the Vysotka, Nivat lives in Moscow and travels extensively.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807002402
• ISBN 13: 9780807002407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320