The inside story of Gaddafi's regime from the award-winning Channel 4 and CNN journalist.
Lindsey Hilsum is an internationally respected and admired communicator from the world's most dangerous flashpoints. She is International Editor for Channel 4 News. She has covered the major conflicts and international events of the past two decades. She spent most of 2011 covering the Arab Spring, primarily in Libya but also Egypt and Bahrain.
""Sandstorm" is a passionate but measured account of why the battle
for Libya happened, how it played out and what may be yet to come.
By hanging the distressing but often inspiring stories of a group
of Libyans around the central figure of the colonel, she gives a
rounded and readable snapshot of extraordinary change in a closed
country that few international journalists could claim to have
known well before last year's events."--"Financial Times"
"A nearly incredible, fantastical tale of the rise and fall of the
'mad dog' of Libya...demonstrates not only the criminal megalomania
of Gaddafi and his pernicious network of nepotism but also the
venality and hypocrisy of the West that kept him in power until the
bitter end. A fitting, clear-eyed send-off to an infamous
dictator." --Kirkus
"As well-paced and exciting as it is authoritative, "Sandstorm" is
an epic account of the revolution that swept Muammar Gaddafi from
power. Written by one of the finest war correspondents of our time,
this is a must-read first draft of history." --Jon Lee Anderson
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