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Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
Carolin Emcke
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Description for Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
Hardback. A collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time - in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among the other places. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: BJ; HBG; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
"Nobody I ever met on my assignments ...asked me for direct, practical help...But over and over again people have asked me: 'Will you write this down?' "--Echoes of Violence Echoes of Violence is an award-winning collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time--in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among many other places. Originally addressing only a small group of friends, Carolin Emcke started the first letter after returning from Kosovo, where she saw the aftermath of ethnic ... Read more
"Nobody I ever met on my assignments ...asked me for direct, practical help...But over and over again people have asked me: 'Will you write this down?' "--Echoes of Violence Echoes of Violence is an award-winning collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time--in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among many other places. Originally addressing only a small group of friends, Carolin Emcke started the first letter after returning from Kosovo, where she saw the aftermath of ethnic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691129037
SKU
V9780691129037
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About Carolin Emcke
Carolin Emcke is a journalist, political theorist, and writer. She has a doctorate in philosophy and has been a visiting lecturer in political theory at Yale. As a staff writer for the foreign news desk of "Der Spiegel", she has written about war crimes and human rights violations around the world. In 2006 she was awarded the Ernst Bloch Forderpreis, ... Read more
Reviews for Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
Carolin Emcke, Winner of the 2016 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, German Publishers and Booksellers Association "As a woman from a formal university background, Emcke was not prepared for situations that defy language, that cannot easily be shared with other people who have not been there...So, intelligently, she formed the habit of writing extended narrative letters to her ... Read more