Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
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ISBN: 038572134X / Publisher: Anchor, January 2002
A former CNN correspondent describes her experiences as a reporter on the front lines of war zones around the world, in a candid memoir of bullets, refugees, stormy love affairs, and television journalism.
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The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group's discussion of Flirting with Danger , a memoir by Siobhan Darrow, a former star correspondent for CNN. Darrow began her career as CNN's Moscow correspondent during the political and economic turbulence that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. She recalls in harrowing detail her subsequent assignments as a frontline reporter covering conflicts in Chechnya, Croatia, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Albania. Her tenure as London correspondent for CNN provided her with a front-row seat to every history-making event in the 1990s, from the collapse of the IRA cease-fire in Northern Ireland to the death of Princess Diana and the cloning of Dolly in 1997.
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