Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya - Softcover

Jagielski, Wojciech

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ISBN 10: 1583229000 ISBN 13: 9781583229002

Verlag: Seven Stories Press, 2009

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In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a hero to some, a dangerous warlord to others; and Aslan Maskhadov, a calculating and sober politician, who is viewed as a providential savior by some of his compatriots and a cowardly opportunist by the rest. Caught up in a war to which they owe everything and without which they could not live, the two fighters face enemy forces—and one another—in protean conflicts that prove hard to quell. Viewing the two men’s personal story as a microcosm of the conflict threatening to devour a land and its peoples, Jagielski distills the bitter history of the region with forceful clarity.

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Formerly a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independent daily,WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century. He is the recipient of several of Poland’s most prestigious awards for journalism, including aBene Merito honorary decoration from the Polish government and the Dariusz Fikus award for excellence in journalism. Seen by many as the literary heir to Ryszard Kapuscinski, he is the author of several books of in-depth reportage, includingTowers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which won Italy’s Letterature dal Fronte Award. Arguably Poland’s best-known contemporary non-fiction writer, Jagielski lives outside Warsaw.

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• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1583229000
• ISBN 13: 9781583229002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336