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In the Hot Zone

One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars

by Kevin Sites
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Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. 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.

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    October 13, 2009

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      • ISBN: 9780061745096

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      • ISBN: 9780061745096
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    • English

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    • Booklist

      Starred review from October 15, 2007
      Fallujah, Mogadishu: the names of some locations are as familiar to news audiences as Los Angeles or Chicago. Others (Lwara, Srinagar) might just as well be situated on Mars. Some warring factions fight outsiders over disputed territory; others battle their own populace over differences in religion. In the year solo journalist Sites covered 20 wars raging around the world for the Yahoo! Internet news site The Hot Zone, he visited not only current conflicts but also remote places where the scars of ancient battles are never allowed to heal, where the definition of humanity is strained to the breaking point, and where the struggle to survive is waged on levels both epic and intimate. His keen, piercing interviews ranged from combative government ministers to composed teenage refugees, from Taliban warlords to Hizbullah combatants. Part diary, part travelogue, part behind-the-scenes expos', Sites reflections on the state of the human condition in the worlds most beleaguered settings vibrate with the immediacy born of 24/7 journalism. As gripping as his on-the-spot account are, however, Sites personal disclosures of doubt, anger, fear, and remorse elevate this chronicle to an unaccustomed and singular level of soulfulness and honesty.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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