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Title Breathing the fire : fighting to report--and survive--the war in Iraq / Kimberly Dozier.
Author Dozier, Kimberly.
Publication Info. Des Moines, Iowa : Meredith Books, 2008.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B DOZIER    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description 288 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary A routine mission ended with Dozier in a pool of blood on a Baghdad street, the victim of a car bomb. She tracks her determination to get the story, get it right, and get well again after everything went wrong.
Contents Just before -- Waking to horror -- One bomb refracted -- Combat support hospital- green zone -- Word spreads -- Landstuhl -- Hard landing -- Fighting Doziers -- We can rebuild her -- Body battles -- Ambushed -- Handling it -- Advice, welcome and otherwise -- Another setback -- Zero to a hundred feet- in two weeks -- Baby steps -- Finding sanctuary -- Coming full circle -- Coming to terms.
Subject Dozier, Kimberly.
Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003- -- Journalists -- Biography.
Reporters and reporting -- Iraq -- Biography.
ISBN 9780696238376 : $24.95
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