num_pages: 400
description: Marie Colvin was hard-drinking braver than the boys with a troubled and rackety personal life. 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. 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. 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.Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her age. Drawing on unpublished diaries and notebooks and interviews with Maries friends family and colleagues In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age and the life of a woman who defied convention.
language: English
title: In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
publisher: Vintage Digital