β Scribed by Lindsey Hilsum
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. An Amazon Best Book of November and one of the Evening Standard 's Books to Read in November
"Colvin never slowed down long enough to write a memoir. Now, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book, she has the full accounting that she deserves." --Joshua Hammer, The New York Times
The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012
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. In Extremis , written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling investigation into Colvin's epic life and tragic death based on exclusive access to her intimate diaries from age thirteen to her...
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