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How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone: The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places
Whether you're a war correspondent or an aid worker, a tourist worried about an increasingly hostile world or an armchair traveler concerned that your own backyard is fast becoming a war zone, How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone will help you survive some of the world's most volatile environments.
Well-traveled journalist Rosie Garthwaite offers practical advice drawn f...more
Well-traveled journalist Rosie Garthwaite offers practical advice drawn f...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
June 21st 2011
by Bloomsbury USA
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Entertaining look at sudden dispatches to unknown places where stepping on a land mine is easier than locating a tampon. Not necessarily something I'd read if I was, in fact, being sent to one of these far-flung locations—as other reviewers have mentioned a lot of the tips are fairly common sense, but needless to say I still learned something (can keep a spurting wound closed now if need be). I definitely enjoyed some of the true life stories from veteran journalists that were scattered sporadic...more
Interesting and potentially very useful if you like to travel to dicey places. I was a journalist for many years, though thankfully I never covered any wars - there was that time when I was trapped in a no mans land between a bunch of armed Stalinists and another bunch of armed right wingers in Lisbon during the revolution, but nothing came of it - but from my friends who have covered wars I've heard enough stories to get the impression that this book is on the money about a lot of subjects. It...more
I didn't find this book necessarily useful, the tips and advice were fairly common sense and there was nothing really new compared to other survival/travel books...but...the true accounts captivated me. Hearing the stories of the "people behind the stories" and reading about life in a war zone while trying to maintain some neutrality was a refreshing change. I think the author had great material to work with and maybe if she diverted away from making this a survival book it would have been gold!...more
This is a how-to book for journalists and anyone else heading into a war zone. How to prepare before you get there, how to run your team, how to cope with guns, riots, and weather, how to spot a fake checkpoint, how to survive if you’re stranded in a jungle or desert; also, how to realize that it’s time to go home and how to deal with the mental repercussions of the job.
The author draws on her own experience of years of reporting from the Middle East, her training as a former British Army office...more
The author draws on her own experience of years of reporting from the Middle East, her training as a former British Army office...more
The guide book for people who want to work in dangerous places. Rosie Garthwaite draws on her military and journalistic experience to provide a solid, common sense set of guidelines. While the subject matter is broad, there are a number of tips I've heard about from former foreign correspondents that are glossed over here, but it's a good introduction for those who might be travelling to a conflict zone, and an entertaining read for the rest of us.
Angela thought this would be a handy resource for me and indeed it is. Journalist Rosie Garthwaite gives practical advice from her personal experience in this amazing survival guide that could apply to a lot of disaster situations. The survival tips also do a fascinating job of painting the picture of how people must live when war is a daily part of life. Very sad, very horrifying.
I am sure nobody is surprised that I read this. What was surprising/mildly sad for me was how little of this was new information. It would make a good first-time manual for conflict zone workers and a good gift for your loved one dispatching to do aid and development work in X country.
I don't know, if Rosie Garthwaite meant it that way, but some of her statements are so painstakingly bone dry, that they become hilarious reads.
I love that, because it reminds me of the sense of humor, I had as a senior firefighter sometimes, that alienates those who have not seen what I have seen. But with my colleagues/brothers at the hose, it was like a ping-pong match... Surprisingly we do recognize each other all over the world with that kind of humor... Also other Brothers in Arms... Not...more
I love that, because it reminds me of the sense of humor, I had as a senior firefighter sometimes, that alienates those who have not seen what I have seen. But with my colleagues/brothers at the hose, it was like a ping-pong match... Surprisingly we do recognize each other all over the world with that kind of humor... Also other Brothers in Arms... Not...more
Informative, funny and a bit scary. A great read before hitting the road to anywhere. Garthwaite is a former Al-Jazzera reporter who has traversed through some of the more bullet-ridden, disease infested regions of the world and her insights are marvelous and cunning.
I thought this book would be more of an account of the author's experiences in war zones. It's not. It is literally a survival guide. What to do if. Complimented by reinforcing real life accounts.
Although it has some useful safety tips. In general the book is a disappointment as I thought it would reflect the author experience as a field reporter
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Rosie Garthwaite is a TV journalist who works in the Middle East. How to Avoid Being Killed in a Warzone: The Essential Survival Guide, published by Bloomsbury in May 2011, is her first book. She wrote the book to provide the information which friends and colleagues travelling to warzones and other extreme destinations were always asking her for. She began her journalistic career as a freelance re...more
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