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Benjamin's story from when he started as a war correspondent covering conflicts to being blown up in the Ukraine, & his incredible journey of getting put back together after the bomb. Fascinating, poignant, heart wrenching, and enthralling.
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Benjamin Hall’s story of getting injured while reporting on the war in Ukraine is an intense and heart wrenching read. I was amazed at his fighting will to survive and his never wavering determination to see the good in the world amidst all of the bad. It’s not a book that will be forgotten after you’re done reading, it’s a book that lingers and keeps you thinking well after you’ve turned the last page.
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make it Home by Benjamin Hall is an absorbing account of self-discovery, a life violently divided into "before" and "after."
Benjamin Hall, the sole survivor of a missile bombing of a car in Ukraine, knows from his experience how capricious fate can be. He should have perished because he was at the car's back in the middle seat. Yet, miraculously, he survived to tell the story - and pass on memory about those four people who didn't make it alive.
The book talks not exceptionally about the war in Ukraine (singular) or other conflicts of recent times (in plural), where the author served first as a freelance correspondent, then as a Fox News reporter. Instead, the book allows the author to compartmentalize his life, concluding that family always comes first. Also central to the tale is Benjamin Hall's unwavering gratitude to everyone who helped him in the most daring time of his life, be it hospitals' personnel, bosses of Fox News, or his family members.
The effortless writing style, the author's years as a war correspondent, as well as his evacuation from Ukraine amidst the chaos, make Saved worthy of becoming a documentary. If I had had a possibility, I would have read the book in one sitting.
(I listened to an audiobook.)
Benjamin Hall, the sole survivor of a missile bombing of a car in Ukraine, knows from his experience how capricious fate can be. He should have perished because he was at the car's back in the middle seat. Yet, miraculously, he survived to tell the story - and pass on memory about those four people who didn't make it alive.
The book talks not exceptionally about the war in Ukraine (singular) or other conflicts of recent times (in plural), where the author served first as a freelance correspondent, then as a Fox News reporter. Instead, the book allows the author to compartmentalize his life, concluding that family always comes first. Also central to the tale is Benjamin Hall's unwavering gratitude to everyone who helped him in the most daring time of his life, be it hospitals' personnel, bosses of Fox News, or his family members.
The effortless writing style, the author's years as a war correspondent, as well as his evacuation from Ukraine amidst the chaos, make Saved worthy of becoming a documentary. If I had had a possibility, I would have read the book in one sitting.
(I listened to an audiobook.)
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