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

Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war''s inhumanity. Personally, Sites will come to discover that the greatest danger he faces may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth.

About the author

Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of that covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo News, and Vice News. He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. For a decade he lived and taught in Hong Kong as an associate professor of practice in journalism at the University of Hong Kong. He’s the author of three books on war, In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords. The Ocean Above Me is his first novel. He lives in Oregon.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Sites
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2007
• EAN: 9780061228759
• ISBN: 978-0-06-122875-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, TRAVEL: Asia / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: JOURNALISM, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: GLOBAL ISSUES, TRAVEL: Middle East / Israel, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Military, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Disasters & Disaster Relief