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In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
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Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity. Personally, Sites will come to discover that the greatest danger he faces may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061745096
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
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Kevin Sites

Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of that covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo News, and Vice News. He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. For a decade he lived and taught in Hong Kong as an associate professor of practice in journalism at the University of Hong Kong. He’s the author of three books on war, In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords. The Ocean Above Me is his first novel. He lives in Oregon.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    It is refreshing as well as thought-provoking to read a journalist who walks the fine line of truth. I wish Fox news would take just one page from his notebook.

    An excellent book!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I first heard of Kevin Sites when he came to give a talk to a journalism class at my school, which I crashed. What he attempted to do was amazing, and I was very glad to find this book at the airport bookshop while I was waiting for my flight. This book, though billed as "current events" is more of a memoir. He gives the basic history of each of the conflict zones he covers, but what he does that is more valuable, in my opinion, is give a human face to the conflict. He tells the stories of those affected by these wars: the innocent bystanders, the soldiers, and the victims. I wish he could have given more depth to each but it was a necessary weakness when he was only in each area for a few short weeks.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Hired by Yahoo!, journalist Kevin Sites visits every armed conflict zone in the world in a single year, filming a short documentary on each one along the way. When I began reading this book, my first thoughts were that this man clearly had (1) an incredibly resistant spirit to tragedy and (2) a death wish. Sites consistently puts the story above his personal safety; he dodges bullets in Iraq, faces angry mobs in Addis Ababa, and heads down to Lebanon in the midst of a bombing. His personal thoughts and experiences are interwoven with interviews from war lords, child soldiers, and armed rebels as well as ordinary people caught up in the war. While I can't imagine why anyone would volunteer for such a job, much less display enthusiasm for it, I started In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars on a whim and stayed up late to finish it. Sites sheds light on conflicts that don't get the press coverage that Iraq and Afghanistan do, but are no less important. No one is affected by war more than civilians, but Sites introduces us to inspiring people who have overcome tremendous adversity. The story of Gulsoma, an abused child bride from Afghanistan, struck me the hardest. Ultimately, I closed this book feeling like I was close friends with Sites and all the people he interviewed, which is how you know you've read a great autobiography.

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