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    The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
    The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
    The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria

    Written by Janine di Giovanni

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

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    About this audiobook

    Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic.

    Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people-among them a doctor, a nun, a musician, and a student. What emerges is an extraordinary picture of the devastating human consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. Recalling celebrated works by Ryszard Kapu#347;ci#324;ski, Philip Gourevitch, and Anne Applebaum, The Morning They Came for Us, through its unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, becomes an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781515983408
    The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
    Author

    Janine di Giovanni

    Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for 25 years. She has written seven books, including the critically acclaimed Madness Visible, The Place at the End of the World, and, most recently, a biography of the Magnum Photographer Eve Arnold. She is the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Granta and Harper's among many others. A frequent foreign policy analyst on British, American and French television, she has won many awards including Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and the Spear's Memoir of the Year Award for Ghosts by Daylight. She is a Fred Pakis scholar in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux for war reporters and is a media leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos. She lives in Paris with her son. www.janinedigiovanni.com @janinedigi

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    • 4/5
      A short and brutal montage of first-person accounts about life in Syria from both sides by a brave journalist who traveled there, mostly during 2012-2014. She interviews torture victims, rape victims, soldiers, civilians, bakers, doctors, etc.. It mostly predates Russian intervention so it's out of date with current events, but it's not a history of war rather the words of those she interviews carries great impact.
    • 5/5
      War correspondents have one of the hardest jobs - go where the bombs and bullets are flying and report about all the misery and pain. And Jeanine Di Giovanni is one of the veterans in that. I've never read a book by her before although I know that I had seen a few of her articles. She had been everywhere - and that gives her a unique perspective at the first year of the Syrian war. And she uses it to write this book - and show that things do not change. Way too often when she describes a situation she compares it to what happened in Bosnia. Or in Iraq. It is heartbreaking to see the same mistakes happening again - and realizing that people are people no matter where - evil and good exist in every war, in every country. The book is a mix between personal stories and official reports. It makes it a bit repetitive in the first part of the story - but then the style settles and gets very readable. The horrors and the misery and the hopelessness leak from every page - people are tortured sometimes without a reason, sometimes for what they believe. There is no winner in that first year of the war - the author ends up riding both with the Assad forces and with the Free Army - seeing the conflict from both sides. But she does not just report the war itself - she reports the lives of the ones that are the most vulnerable - the children, the women, the people that cannot defend themselves. In a culture where being a virgin is the only way to have a future, the men, the same men that will require virginity from their brides, are raping, ensuring that they are destroying lives even when they are not killing. It is a hard book to read - a lot of the torture descriptions are graphical and you can hear the voices behind them. So are the stories of ruined lives and deaths - both of locals and of other journalists. It is not a book you want to read and yet it is a book that needs to be read. Because humanity is doomed to repeat the same mistakes until everyone realizes that this cannot continue.
    • 5/5
      This author is a war correspondent who writes about her experiences during the recent Syrian conflict. She describes how during the Arab Spring events in the Middle East people in Syria gathered to start a peaceful revolution that quickly changed into a civil war with no end in sight. The author looks at this situation from the perspective of the different parties involved, but the bottom line is that there are no winners here. It is a wonderfully insightful look at this tragic situation.