In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin Audiobook (Free)

Random Home presents the audiobook model of In Extremis: THE LIFE SPAN of Battle Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum.

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‘It has generally seemed to me that what I reveal is mankind in extremis, pushed towards the unendurable, and that it’s important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With brutal about In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin compassion and credibility, she reported from the most dangerous locations in the globe, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in additional and staying longer than anyone else. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit with a grenade and lost the view in her still left eye – resulting in her trademark eyes patch – and in 2012 she was killed in Syria. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she searched for to bear see to the horrifying truths of war, to create ‘the 1st draft of history’ and crucially to sparkle a light within the suffering of regular people.

Compiled by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is actually the story of the very most daring battle reporter of her age. Drawing on unpublished diaries and notebooks, and interviews with Marie’s friends, family and colleagues, In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age group, and the life of a woman who defied convention.