Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war / Megan K. Stack
- Bib ID:
- 5448119
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stack, Megan K
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Doubleday, c2010
- ix, 257 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780385527163
- 0385527160
- Summary:
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"Every Man in This Village Is a Liar" is LA Times reporter Megan K. Stack's riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones of the Middle East, in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan, and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy.
- Full contents:
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- One. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
- Two. Chasing Ghosts
- Three. As Long as You Can Pay for It
- Four. Terrorism and Other Stories
- Five. Forgive Us Our Trespasses
- Six. The Living Martyr
- Seven. The Leader
- Eight. Sacrifice
- Nine. We Expected Something Better
- Ten. A Question of Cost
- Eleven. Loddi Doddi, We Likes to Party
- Twelve. A City Built on Garbage
- Thirteen. The Earthquake Nobody Felt
- Fourteen. All Things Light, and All Things Dark
- Fifteen. There Would Be Consequences
- Sixteen. Killing the Dead
- Seventeen. I Thought I Was a Salamander
- Epilogue.
- Subject:
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- Stack, Megan K -- Travel -- Middle East
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Terrorism -- Middle East -- History -- 21st century
- War and society -- Middle East
- Women war correspondents -- United States -- Biography
- Americans -- Middle East -- Biography
- Middle East -- History, Military -- 21st century
- Middle East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Middle East -- Biography
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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