Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
Western journalists were forbidden to cover the war between Chechnya and Russia, but Nivat risked her life to sneak across the border--disguised as a Chechnyan peasant--to see firsthand what was happening during the war. Nivat, who had been raised in France near the border of Switzerland and introduced at an early age to the Russian culture, was only 30 years old when she covered the war forLiberation, a French news publication. Her personal accounts of survival are exhilarating. As she travels around the war-torn country with her guide, she describes to the reader situations that many would find unimaginable. She introduces the reader to the nameless and faceless people affected by the war. Nivat had the opportunity to meet with all sorts of people whose lives were thrown into an upheaval, and the result is an absorbing account of people personally affected by war.Julia GlynnCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved