Every Man in This Village Is a Liar : an education in war / Megan K. Stack
- Bib ID:
- 8038101
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stack, Megan K, author
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- Carlton North : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd., 2010
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2010
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
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- text file EPUB 630KB
- ISBN:
- 9781921753220 (EPUB)
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- EBL ebooks online
- Summary:
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A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world, and striving to tell its stories. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Megan Stack's unique and breathtaking account of what she saw in the combat zones 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. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; documents the growth of unusual friendships; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews. Beautiful, savage, and unsettling, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is a deeply human memoir about the wars of the 21st century. It is an indispensable book of our times. Megan Stack has spent 10 years reporting on Middle East and this book will appeal to those who readers who enjoyed Scribe's Fit to Print by Joris Luyendijk, published in September 2009. She was a finalist of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for Iraq coverage.
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- Cover page; title page; copyright page; dedication; contents; prologue; 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 salamanderepilogue; acknowledgments.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Americans -- Middle East -- Biography
- Stack, Megan K -- Travel -- Middle East
- Terrorism -- Middle East -- History -- 21st century
- War and society -- Middle East
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Women war correspondents -- United States -- Biography
- Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
- History - Modern - 21st Century
- International relations
- Memoirs
- Military history: post WW2 conflicts
- Political Science - International Relations - General
- Politics & government
- Travel - Middle East - General
- Middle East -- Biography
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Middle East -- History, Military -- 21st century
- Middle East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Australian
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