A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades - Softcover

Brenner, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501183869 ISBN 13: 9781501183867

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2018

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war.

In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle. A veteran war correspondent known for her fearlessness, outspokenness, and signature eye patch, she was defying a government decree preventing journalists from entering the country. Accompanied by photographer Paul Conroy, she was determined to report on the Syrian civil war, adding to a long list of conflicts she had covered, including those in Egypt, Chechnya, Kosovo, and Libya. She had witnessed grenade attacks, saved more than one thousand women and children in an East Timor war zone when she refused to stop reporting until they were evacuated, and even interviewed Muammar Qaddafi. But she had no idea that the story she was looking for in Syria would be her last, culminating in the explosion of an improvised device that sent shock waves across the world.

In A Private War, Marie Brenner brilliantly chronicles the last days and hours of Colvin's life, moment by moment, to share the story of a remarkable life lived on the front lines. This collection also includes Brenner's classic encounters with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Malala Yousafzai, Richard Jewell, and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Marie Brenner is the author of seven books and is Writer at Large for Vanity Fair. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker, a contributing editor at New York magazine and has won numerous awards for her reporting around the world. Her expose of the tobacco industry, "The Man Who Knew Too Much," was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1501183869
• ISBN 13: 9781501183867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336