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Simon & Schuster
February 2010
On Sale: February 15, 2010
284 pages
ISBN: 141656098X
EAN: 9781416560982
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Non-Fiction
At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to
cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a
little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a
twenty-first-century reporter -- cell phones, high-speed
Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers,
guards, translators. In startling detail, he describes the
chaos, the violence, the never-ending threats of bomb and
mortar attacks, the front lines that can be a half mile from
the Green Zone, that can be anywhere. This is a new kind of
war: private security companies follow their own rules or
lack thereof; soldiers in combat get instant messages from
their girlfriends and families; members of the Louisiana
National Guard watch Katrina's decimation of their city on a
TV in the barracks.Back in New York, Hastings had fallen in
love with Andi Parhamovich, a young idealist who worked for
Air America. A year into their courtship, Andi followed
Michael to Iraq, taking a job with the National Democratic
Institute. Their war-zone romance is another window into
life in Baghdad. They call each other pet names; they make
plans for the future; they fight, usually because each is
fearful for the other's safety; and they try to figure out
how to get together, when it means putting bodyguards and
drivers in jeopardy.Then Andi goes on a dangerous mission
for her new employer -- a meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party
headquarters that ends in catastrophe.Searing, unflinching,
and revelatory, I Lost My Love in Baghdad is both a raw,
brave, brilliantly observed account of the war and a
heartbreaking story of one life lost to it.
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