Until her death at the hands of the Syrian regime, Colvin remained indefatigable, never losing her idealism or youthful energy.īy eschewing hagiography for complexity, Hilsum has created a captivating portrait. In Extremis is Hilsum’s riveting story of how Colvin went from a carefree idealistic youth in Oyster Bay, NY, to an audacious war correspondent who reported from sites of merciless violence in Lebanon, Palestine, Chechnya, East Timor, Sri Lanka, the Balkans and Libya. “In a few days the War of the Camps was over,” writes Hilsum. Three days later the Syrian regime ordered its proxy militia to stand down and for the first time the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to enter the camp. “The facts were clear and brutal,” writes Lindsey Hilsum in In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, “as Marie had seen it with her own eyes”. War on Women, the powerful piece Colvin wrote, was splashed across the front page of the Sunday Times on 5 April 1987.
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