Book Report :"Tell Them I Didn't Cry
Jackie Spinner is the staff writer for the Washington Post, where she has been a reporter since May 1995. This is her first book. “Tell Them I didn't Cry” is a deeply personal story of Jackie Spinner's “joy, loss, and survival in Iraq.” The book is a personal account of the more than nine months that she spent in Iraq as a reporter. She went to Iraq for a brief visit in January 2004, while embedded with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and returned in May -arriving eight days after U.S. Soldiers on a routine patrol found the decapitated body of American businessman Nick Berg on a highway overpass west of the Iraqi capital. His videotaped execution at the hands of the insurgents-coupled with the deaths of four U.S. Contractors whose mutilated bodies were strung from the bridge in the city of Fallujah- marked what we now realize was a free fall into a dark cavern of blood and violence.
Jackie introduces every single one of her colleagues in the Iraqi staff . She introduces......
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