When 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. The 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 A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin. "Now, thanks to Hilsum’s deeply reported and passionately written book, has the full accounting that she deserves." -Joshua Hammer, The New York Times An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in November Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
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