<p>An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.<br><br>Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.<br><br>Along the way she meets Bruno, a French reporter whose spirit and audacity are a match for her own. Their love affair spans nearly a decade and a dozen armed conflicts before they settle in Paris to raise a family. But Janine soon learns that a life lived in war is inevitably haunted. Bruno struggles with physical and emotional pain, and Janine, a new mother and wife in Paris, is afraid both for Bruno and herself and for the work that they do—and doubtful that she can hold their lives together.<br><br>With stunning scenes of action, heart-wrenching accounts of profound love, personal loss, and redemption<i>, Ghosts by Daylight </i>tells the unforgettable story of a passionate life lived to the fullest.</p>

Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption

Biographies & Memoirs

DI GIOVANNI, Janine

Leaders & Notable People

KNOPF

<p>An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.<br /> <br /> Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career&#8212;more than twenty years&#8212;in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.<br /> <br /> Along the way she meets Bruno, a French reporter whose spirit and audacity are a match for her own. Their love affair spans nearly a decade and a dozen armed conflicts before they settle in Paris to raise a family. But Janine soon learns that a life lived in war is inevitably haunted. Bruno struggles with physical and emotional pain, and Janine, a new mother and wife in Paris, is afraid both for Bruno and herself and for the work that they do&#8212;and doubtful that she can hold their lives together.<br /> <br /> With stunning scenes of action, heart-wrenching accounts of profound love, personal loss, and redemption<i>, Ghosts by Daylight</i> tells the unforgettable story of a passionate life lived to the fullest.<br /> <br /> <br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p>

Community & Culture

Vintage Books

<p>From an internationally celebrated war correspondent, a searing firsthand chronicle–told with extraordinary immediacy–of the ordeal of the Balkan people during the continuing breakup of Yugoslavia.<br><br>As a reporter for <i>The Times </i>of London, Janine di Giovanni found herself a close witness to the cycles of violence and vengeance in cities and villages, in refugee camps, in slapped-together hospitals, and in the homes of citizens under siege. She begins her story in May 1999 in Kosovo. The world believes the Balkan wars are over, but violence persists. She follows the arc of the war from its earliest days through the staggering experience of the people who endured it: soldiers numbed by–and inured to–the atrocities they commit, women driven to despair by their life in paramilitary rape camps, civilians (di Giovanni among them) caught in bombing raids of uncertain origin, babies murdered in hate-induced rage.<br><br>She searches for the motives of the leaders who created this hell: Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic, and such crucial though less well-known figures as Nikola Koljevic, who directed the siege–and accomplished the destruction–of Sarajevo, the city he claimed to love.<br><br>Di Giovanni’s story raises profoundly challenging questions: What can cause neighbors who have lived peacefully side by side for centuries to turn against one another with mindless brutality? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed? How should other governments react to mass murder in a neighboring country?<br><br>Acutely perceptive, unflinching, making the madness of war visible, this is an important work of reportage from the physical and psychological front lines.</p>

Madness Visible: A Memoir of War

History

World

<p>As a senior foreign correspondent for <i>The Times</i> of London, Janine di Giovanni was a firsthand witness to the brutal and protracted break-up of Yugoslavia. With unflinching sensitivity, <b>Madness Visible</b>follows the arc of the wars in the Balkans through the experience of those caught up in them: soldiers numbed by the atrocities they commit, women driven to despair by their life in paramilitary rape camps, civilians (di Giovanni among them) caught in bombing raids of uncertain origin, babies murdered in hate-induced rage.<br><br>Di Giovanni’s searing memoir examines the turmoil of the Balkans in acute detail, and uncovers the motives of the leaders who created hell on earth; it raises challenging questions about ethnic conflict and the responsibilities of foreign governments in times of mass murder. Perceptive and compelling, this unique work of reportage from the physical and psychological front lines makes the madness of war wholly visible.</p>

Humor & Entertainment

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Translated from the Arabic, intifada means the shivering caused by fever. In political terms it means an explosion. The Palestinian uprising erupted in the Gaza strip in December 1987 after 20 years of Israeli military occupation. It quickly spread to the West Bank and Jerusalem. What the world saw of the intifada were the photographs of Israeli soldiers breaking Palstinians' bones, Palestinians hurling Molotov cocktails at Jewish housewives or rocks at soldiers. The author writes about the real life behind those photographs. She travelled throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip interviewing both Jews and Palestinians in an attempt to document their lives. She watched the intifada flourish and then wane, Middle East peace talks come and go, and more frightening, the lengths to which people of both sides are driven when they become desperate. Weaving together accounts of weeks spent with armed militant factions of the PLO, the memories of a Holocaust survivor who defended the Palestinians in military courts for 25 years, the faded dreams of the Israeli Left and the emotional impact of occupation on the children, the author builds a complex picture of "the new Sparta of the Middle East". Part reportage, part travel book, this is a personal account of the stories of people trapped by history and geography.

Against the stranger: Lives in occupied territory

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

VIKING

<p><strong>Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic.</strong></p> Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people―among them a doctor, a nun, a musician, and a student. What emerges is an extraordinary picture of the devastating human consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. Recalling celebrated works by Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski, Philip Gourevitch, and Anne Applebaum, The Morning They Came for Us, through its unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, becomes an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement. 30 illustrations

The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria

Middle East

Liveright

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

BLOOMSBURY

<p>'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE\n'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR\n'Profoundly moving' MARK TULLY<br />
_______________________\nThe Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland.\nSome of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia.\nFrom Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives.\nIn The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Full of faith and hope, di Giovanni's riveting personal stories make a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.</p>

The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

Religion & Spirituality

Bloomsbury Publishing

<p><div><b><i>The Vanishing</i> reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq,&nbsp;and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland.</b></div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia.</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In <i>The Vanishing</i>, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities that have become wisely fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Di Giovanni's riveting personal stories and her conception of faith and hope are intertwined throughout the chapters. The book is a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div></p>

The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets

PublicAffairs

<p>Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.<br><br>Along the way she meets Bruno, a French reporter whose spirit and audacity are a match for her own. Their love affair spans nearly a decade and a dozen armed conflicts before they settle in Paris to raise a family. But Janine soon learns that a life lived in war is inevitably haunted. Bruno struggles with physical and emotional pain, and Janine, a new mother and wife in Paris, is afraid for both Bruno and herself and for the work that they do—and doubtful that she can hold their lives together.<br><br>With stunning scenes of action and heart-wrenching accounts of profound love, personal loss, and redemption, <i>Ghosts by Daylight</i> tells the unforgettable story of a passionate life lived to the fullest.</p>

Ghosts by Daylight: A Modern-Day War Correspondent's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Redemption

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Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption

Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption

Madness Visible: A Memoir of War

Madness Visible: A Memoir of War

Against the stranger: Lives in occupied territory

The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets

Ghosts by Daylight: A Modern-Day War Correspondent's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Redemption