New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 222 pages. Maps, slight wear to DJ edges. Bookplate signed by the author (Anne Garrels) on front endpaper. Anne Garrels is the highly respected National Public Radio (NPR) foreign correspondent who filed reports from Baghdad, as a non-embedded journalist, prior to and during the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's government. Anne Garrels narrative starts with several trips she made to Baghdad before the war, beginning in October 2002. At its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqi driver/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant, often serving as her eyes and ears among the populace and taking her where no other reporter w able to penetrate. Amer's own strong reactions and personal dilemma provide a trenchant counterpoint to daily events. The Story is also punctuated by e-mail bulletins sent by Garrel's husband, Vint Lawrence, to their friends around the world, giving a private view of the rough-and-tumple, often dangerous life of a foreign correspondent. The result is an enthralling, deeply personal, and utterly authentic--an on-the-ground picture of the war in Iraq that no one else could have written. As Chicago Sun-Times critic Lloyd Sachs wrote about Garrels's work in Baghdad, "A few choice words, honestly delivered, are worth more than a thousand pictures...In your mind's eye, they carry lasting truth." More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. 222, maps, slight wear to DJ edges, front DJ flap price clipped. More