![]() ![]() 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. Read more `the first draft of history' and to shine a light on the suffering of ordinary people. ![]() Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war, to write. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. In dustwrapper ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** ** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ** **Marie Colvin is the subject of a major biopic starring Rosamund Pike** 'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. ![]() Description for In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin Hardcover. ![]()
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