Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war / Megan K. Stack
- Author
- Stack, Megan K.
- Published
- New York : Doubleday, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- ix, 257 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Every man in this village is a liar -- Chasing ghosts -- As long as you can pay for it -- Terrorism and other stories -- Forgive us our trespasses -- The living martyr -- The leader -- Sacrifice -- We expected something better -- A question of cost -- Loddi doddi, we likes to party -- A city built on garbage -- The earthquake nobody felt -- All things light, and all things dark -- There would be consequences -- Killing the dead -- I thought I was a salamander.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject(s)
- Stack, Megan K.—Travel—Middle East
- Terrorism—Middle East—History—21st century
- War and society—Middle East
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Women war correspondents—United States—Biography
- Americans—Middle East—Biography
- Middle East—History, Military—21st century
- Middle East—Social conditions—21st century
- Middle East—Description and travel
- Middle East—Biography
- ISBN
- 9780385527163
0385527160
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