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Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war

A memoir about the wars of the twenty-first century. It offers an account of what the author saw in the combat zones and beyond. It relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. It records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq.

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  • "A memoir about the wars of the twenty-first century. It offers an account of what the author saw in the combat zones and beyond. It relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. It records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq."@en
  • "A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world and laboring to tell its stories. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Stack's account of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews."
  • "A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world, and striving to tell its stories. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Megan Stack's unique and breathtaking account of what she saw in the com."
  • ""Every Man in This Village Is a Liar" is LA Times reporter Megan K. Stack's riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones of the Middle East, in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan, and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy."
  • "Account of what Megan Stack saw in the combat zones of the Middle East, in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan, and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy."@en
  • "Journalistieke reportages over het Midden-Oosten, over menselijke belevenissen aan weerskanten van de culturele, politieke en religieuze scheidslijnen."
  • "After the attacks of September 11, the author spent the next decade in the Middle East covering the far-flung and ever-morphing war on terror. For her, the conflict isn't as clear-cut as 'us versus them'; who the terrorists are, and ultimately what constitutes terrorism itself is as subjective as the opinions of the people she encounters."

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Military history"
  • "Military history"@en

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  • "Every Man in This Village Is a Liar An Education in War"
  • "Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war"
  • "Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war"@en
  • "An education in war"@en
  • "Every man in this village is a liar an education in war"
  • "Every man in this village is a liar an education in war"@en
  • "Iedereen in dit dorp liegt : lessen in oorlog"