Center Point Platinum Nonfiction: Every Man in This Village Is a Liar : An Education in War (Hardcover)

from Donna828

The world of war in the Middle East left its mark on this young journalist, and I'm grateful that she shared her post-9/11 experiences in Afghanistan, Israel, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt witnessing the horror of death and the even more horrific impact on the survivors. Megan St...

from brenzi

"The sun is shining like every mad morning in this garish war. I wake up to the crash of bombs and tell myself, just do it for one more day. Anyway you are trapped. If you try to get out of here they will kill you on the road. So do it for one more day. You know you wouldn't leave, even if you co...

from -Cee-

Wow. Megan Stack was a finalist in 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. After reading this book, I am not surprised she was a finalist, only that she didn't win. She has fearlessly taken on a subject of great world controversy sparing no danger to herself both physically and me...

from MarcusH

This is an extraordinary book. Megan Stack creates a collection of journalistic entries that discuss different experiences with armed conflict in the Middle East. Stack shows how strong and how breakable people are and how war truly has no beneficiaries. The people Stack encounters throughout the...

from msf59

"You can survive and not survive, both at the same time." War on Terror! Manifest or farce? Megan Stack, a foreign correspondent for the LA Times, attempts to answer that question. Shortly after 9/11, Stack found herself thrust into the Middle East, spending the next six years, in various hot zon...