Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other

Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other Hellholes

Prize-winning author and award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century. From crumbling Havana, Cubaâ€”still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wallâ€”to a comparatively upscale Hanoi, Vietnam, still struggling to free itself from Chinese-style authoritarian rule. From a nightmarish Libya under the deranged Moammar Qaddafi, to an exhausted, polarized and increasingly fanatical Egypt before the Arab Spring finally ripped the region to pieces. From the Lebanese border during the devasting war between Israel and Hezbollah, to Iraq in the grips of an insurgency mounted by the murderous precursor to ISIS. Partly a collection of Tottenâ€™s best previously published work, Dispatches includes plenty of new material from Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the dysfunctional quarters of Europe. He goes to rough places so you donâ€™t have to, and his dispatches are by turns entertaining, harrowing and occasionally even hilarious despite the dark subject matter. Not to be missed. Praise for Michael J. Totten â€œTottenâ€¦practices journalism in the tradition of Orwell: morally imaginative, partisan in the best sense of the word, and delivered in crackling, rapid-ï¬re prose beï¬tting the violent realities it depicts.â€ Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary â€œIt is extremely rare to read such an accurate account of anything to which one was oneself a witness.â€ â€“ Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great. â€œOne of Americaâ€™s premier foreign correspondents.â€ â€“ Damien Penny, Seattle Post-Intelligencer â€œOf all the journalists now alive and writing in English, ther are few whose reporting interests me more than Michael Tottenâ€™sâ€”in fact, none that I can think of offhand.â€ â€“ Claire Berlinski, author of Menace in Europe â€œMichael J. Totten is one of a rare breed. Moving from front to front, he brings experience and context and the willingness to go where few men dare.â€ â€“ Michael Yon, Moment of Truth in Iraq
Country USA
Brand Belmont Estate Books
Manufacturer Belmont Estate Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692616864
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Belmont Estate Books
Manufacturer	Belmont Estate Books
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692616864
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other Hellholes

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