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The View from the Valley of Hell
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Four years in the Middle East.
Barely a fortnight after arriving in Jerusalem in July 2002 as the ABC's Middle East Correspondent, Mark Willacy found himself staring into the lifeless eyes of a suicide bomber. It was a shockingly appropriate introduction. Over the next four years he would observe firsthand some of the most dramatic and violent events of the twenty-first century, from the second Palestinian Intifada to the US invasion of Iraq and the vicious insurgency that followed.
The View from the Valley of Hell - an account of those turbulent years - is personal, informed and utterly riveting. From clandestine interviews with some of the Middle East's most wanted terrorist leaders to surreal cricket mataches played behind concrete blast walls and fortifications in Baghdad, Willacy captures the human dimension of the Middle East's tragedies, revealing what it really means to live through events we only read as news stories. With compassion, humanity and a leavening of humour, The View from the Valley of Hell takes you behind the headlines and into the heart of the most volatile and important region in the world today.
Four years in the Middle East.
Barely a fortnight after arriving in Jerusalem in July 2002 as the ABC's Middle East Correspondent, Mark Willacy found himself staring into the lifeless eyes of a suicide bomber. It was a shockingly appropriate introduction. Over the next four years he would observe firsthand some of the most dramatic and violent events of the twenty-first century, from the second Palestinian Intifada to the US invasion of Iraq and the vicious insurgency that followed.
The View from the Valley of Hell - an account of those turbulent years - is personal, informed and utterly riveting. From clandestine interviews with some of the Middle East's most wanted terrorist leaders to surreal cricket mataches played behind concrete blast walls and fortifications in Baghdad, Willacy captures the human dimension of the Middle East's tragedies, revealing what it really means to live through events we only read as news stories. With compassion, humanity and a leavening of humour, The View from the Valley of Hell takes you behind the headlines and into the heart of the most volatile and important region in the world today.
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