Drawing on unpublished diaries and notebooks, and interviews with Marie’s friends, family and colleagues, In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age, and the life of a woman who defied convention. Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her age. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war, to write ‘the first draft of history’ and crucially to shine a light on the suffering of ordinary people. But as Channel4News have a blackout on anti war opinions, you’d never know. That’s a bit like the opprobrium levelled at those in UK who question Britain and NATO’s role. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit by a grenade and lost the sight in her left eye - resulting in her trademark eye patch - and in 2012 she was killed in Syria. C4News Lindsey Hilsum saying no one is allowed to criticise the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Russia. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. ‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001 Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum.
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