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No ordinary assignment a memoir

"From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war-from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and milita...

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Main Author: Ferguson, Jane, 1984- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Mariner Books, [2023]
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Ferguson, Jane, > 1984-
Women war correspondents > Northern Ireland > Biography.
War > Press coverage.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Kabul, August 2021
  • Uncle Desmond got kicked by a cow
  • Chicken shit
  • The highest point
  • Dubai girl
  • "Short virgins will never make good war photographers"
  • "No openings"
  • Cross fire
  • "Our correspondent we are not naming for security reasons"
  • Homs
  • A killing
  • Helicopters under a full moon
  • A massacre in Cairo
  • The scarlet woman award
  • Under attack
  • Growing basil in Beirut
  • No foreign accents
  • Auditioning
  • Thumbing Humvees in Hell
  • A relapse
  • Women of war
  • A bitter return
  • "I will be your leg"
  • Ceremonies
  • The deal of the century
  • "There is not a future for you here"
  • Taliban on the march
  • The fall.

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