Ambushed: A War Reporter's Life on the Line
- ISBN-10
- 1565123808
- ISBN-13
- 9781565123809
- Category
- Sierra Leone
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Author
- Ian Stewart
Description
In a day-to-day account of life as a war correspondent, a journalist recounts being ambushed by rebels while on assignment in Africa, an ambush that left him critically wounded and one of his colleagues dead.
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