in extremis the life of war correspondent marie colvin

In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age, and the life of a woman who defied convention. This week on War College, Lindsey Hilsum walks us through Colvin’s life and death. She was so good that Bashar al Assad’s regime ordered her execution. Marie Colvin was one of the best in the business. Drawing on unpublished diaries and interviews with Marie’s friends, family and colleagues, Hilsum conjures a fiercely compassionate, complex woman who was driven to an extraordinary life and tragic death. War correspondents risk life and limb to report on conflict. Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her time. She was much admired, and as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story, including being smuggled into Syria where she was killed in 2012. Her anecdotes about encounters with dictators and presidents – including Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat, whom she knew well – were incomparable. Marie covered the major conflicts of our time- Israel and Palestine, Chechnya, East Timor, Sri Lanka – where she was hit by a grenade and lost sight in her left eye, resulting in her trademark eye-patch – Iraq and Afghanistan. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war, to write ‘the first draft of history’ and to shine a light on the suffering of ordinary people. Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria.

She reported from the most dangerous places in the world, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Title: In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

In extremis the life of war correspondent marie colvin