Breathing the fire
Subtitle: fighting to survive, and get back to the fight
By: Kimberly Dozier
Edition: Rev. and upd. ed.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: East Petersburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781565236158
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011; American Personal narratives; Journalists; Biography; Civilian war casulaties
Description: While serving as a CBS News foreign correspondent in Iraq in 2006, the U.S. Army foot patrol she and her crew were filming was hit by a car bomb, killing some in the group and severely injuring her. This book recounts how the blast changed her life.
Notes: 1st ed. published: Des Moines, IA : Meredith Books, 2008.
Table of contents: title: Just before; title: Waking to horror; title: One bomb refracted; title: Combat support hospital : green zone; title: Word spreads; title: Landstuhl; title: Hard landing; title: Fighting Doziers; title: We can rebuild her; title: Body battles; title: Ambushed; title: Handling it; title: Advice, welcome and otherwise; title: Another setback; title: Zero to a hundred feet : in two weeks; title: Baby steps; title: Finding sanctuary; title: Getting to work again; title: Coming to terms; title: Postscript.