WATSON, PAUL

Where War Lives

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771088221. Small name stamp bottom page edges, dust jacket creased top edge ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.10 X 6 X 1.30 inches; 367 pages; A Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist takes us on a personal and historic journey from Mogadishu through Rwanda to Afghanistan and Iraq.With the click of a shutter the world came to know Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland Jr. as a desecrated corpse. In the split-second that Paul Watson had to choose between pressing the shutter release or turning away, the world went quiet and Watson heard Cleveland whisper: “If you do this, I will own you forever.” And he has."Paul Watson was born a rebel with one hand, who grew up thinking it took two to fire an assault rifle, or play jazz piano. So he became a journalist. At first, he loved war. He fed his lust for the bang-bang, by spending vacations with guerilla fighters in Angola, Eritrea, Sudan, and Somalia, and writing about conflicts on the frontlines of the Cold War. Soon he graduated to assignments covering some of the world’s most important conflicts, including South Africa, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iraq.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 16083

Catalogue: Militaria::Journalism

Keywords: 0771088221 mogadishu Africa Blackhawk Iraq somalia Militaria