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In the Hot Zone One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars

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ISBN-10: 0061228753

ISBN-13: 9780061228759

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kevin Sites

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As Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, Kevin Sites spent the last year covering every major global conflict for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" on Yahoo! News. These areas of conflict are typically left uncovered or underreported by mainstream news organizations. Sites bravely visited each one, often without help of any kind, and this book delves further into the dramatic stories behind Sites' adventures. The reporting on display here is gripping and unforgettable, including an interview with an exU.S. Marine who is also the son of Somalia's most infamous warlord; the portrait of a former child soldier in the Congo who is rejected by his family and, with no other options, may have to take up…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.02" wide x 7.99" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Kevin Sites has spent the past seven years covering global war and disasters for several national networks, including NBC, ABC, and CNN, and has helped pioneer solo journalism, traveling to and reporting from some of the world's most dangerous places. He is a recipient of the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. When not on assignment, he makes his home in southern California.

Prologue: Blacksburg and Baghdad
The Revelation will not Be Televised
Burdens of War: The Mosque Shooting
Holiday Hell: Reporting the Tsunami
Intermission: Fathers and Sons
TV News or the Internet: Do I Yahoo!?
Into the Arms of Mama Africa: Rebels, Rape Victims and the Children of War
Somalia: Chew on This!
Intermission: Khat Tales
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Worse Than the Guns
Intermission: Hammering Rocks
Uganda: An Army of Children
Sudan: The Longest War
Intermission: Young Woman and a Log
Phantoms of Falluja, Brown Sugar Junkies, Martyrs' Moms and Other Middle East Nightmares
Iraq: What Cannot Be Left Behind
Lebanon: Hanging with Hezbollah
Intermission: Defendant "198964"
Iran: Under the Hijab
Intermission: Persians Can Jump
Syria: Without Mouths
Israel and Gaza: Burned, Blind and Reborn
Intermission: Sami
The Child Bride, Endless Grief and Music to Disarm to: Lives and Lessons from Europe, Central Asia and the Americas
Chechnya: Art Amid the Ruins
Intermission: Bomb U
Afghanistan: Smiling Through the Pain
Colombia: The Right to Bear Arms
Intermission: Email
Haiti: Life Without a Net
Intermission: The Art of Survival
My Asian Odyssey: Tamil Tigers, Nepal Maoists, Karen Rebels and a Missed Moment with the Dalailama
Nepal: Where to Mao?
Kashmir: Trouble in Paradise
Intermission: Learning to See
Sri Lanka: Tiger Don't Surf
Myanmar: Oldest Rebels Battle Ugliest Regime
Intermission: Missing Chance: Oh, Hello Dalai
Cambodia: Does Justice Lie Among Those Bones?
Vietnam: Clockwork Orange
The Thirty-Four-Day War: Putting the Hole in the Holy Land
Lebanon: Dodging Drones and Dead Men's Pockets
Israel: The Equality of Fear
My Third-World America: a Wealth of Information, a Poverty of Knowledge
Coming Home: Dreams, Death and the Hardest Truth
Epilogue: What Did I Learn?
Open Letter to the Devil Dogs of the 3.1
Email to Yahoo! About the China Situation
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