I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story Tapa blanda - 2008

Melbourne University Press 2008. 2008. Softcover. 8vo softcover 276pp index, b/w. Very good. In January 2007 American aid worker Andi Parhamovich was killed in Baghdad. She was also engaged to the author, Newsweek's Iraqi correspondent Michael Hastings. Hastings charts the ups and downs of their relationship, a modern love story played out against the ultra-violent backdrop of Iraq. Questions involvement in Iraq war. .

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2008. Trade Paperback. As New. Trade Paperback. 276 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2008. *** CONDITION: This book is in as new condition. Remainder mark. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: At only twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrives in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. Back in New York, Hastings had fallen in love with Andi Parhamovich. A year into their courtship, Andi follows Michael to Iraq, taking a job as an aid worker. As Hastings charts their war-zone romance he gives us a window into life in Baghdad-the chaos, the violence, the never-ending threats of bomb and mortar attacks and the ever-changing front lines of battle. But then this modern love story takes a tragic turn. Returning from a dangerous mission in one of Baghdad's worst neighbourhoods, Andi's convoy is ambushed. Amid bullets and grenades, Andi doesn't stand a chance. Searing, unflinching and revelatory, I Lost My Love in Baghdad is both a… Leer más

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, (2008).. (2008).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL HASTINGS IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The corners and edges of the covers are creased and the rear cover is slightly rubbed. ix, [iii] & 276 pages. There are a couple of small stains to the fore-edge of the book. Good. <p>First Australian edition of the author's first book, published in the same year as the first American.<p>Inscribed and signed by Michael Hastings on the title page in the year of publication.<p>The American author and journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013) was a reporter for BuzzFeed and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. He rose to prominence for his coverage of the war in Iraq for Newsweek. His first book "I Lost My Love in Baghdad" is a biographical memoir of his relationship with his fiancee Andi Parhamovich and of her tragic death when her car was ambushed in Iraq. His 2010 Rolling Stone… Leer más