mescalero_at_bat 's review for:

A Dirty War by Anna Politkovskaya

5.0

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I would give this book 10 stars if I could...on par with the greatest journalistic novels, Politkovskaya's book traces the first wave of the war Russia waged on the Chechen people. Politkovskaya was one of the few writers to go there, live there, endure torture and other forms of abuse, all in the name of telling it like it is. Not only a great book by a great writer on the subject of freedom, this book is a testament to this woman's courage...the parallels between US/Iraq and Russia/Chechnaya are also interesting...