Ebook {Epub PDF} Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories by Anna Badkhen

Badkhen, an experienced journalist, relates experiences from her time in Russia, Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan, threaded together with the universal experience of food--a candy bar given as a bribe, meals eaten with a translator's family while gunfire roared outside, binge drinking in Moscow while waiting for news of the theater hostage catastrophe, the meals served on US bases, feasts Afghans /5. Peace Meals focuses on day-to-day life, describing not just the shocking violence but also the beauty that continues during wartime: the spring flowers that bloom in the crater hollowed by an air-to-surface missile, the lapidary sanctuary of a twelfth-century palace besieged by a modern battle, or a meal a tight-knit family shares in the relative safety of their home as a firefight rages outside. It reveals how one war /5(21). Travel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade’s most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they www.doorway.rued on: Octo.

She is best known as a by-line from war-torn countries, but correspondent Anna Badkhen was riding her bicycle along the Massachusetts coast Tuesday -- taking a celebratory ride because October 12 was the publication date for her new book, "Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories". New Hard cover. Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab. Peace Meals, by Anna Badkhen, pp., $25 (available as of Oct. 12) While his wife stuffs grape leaves, a Saddam-provoking writer in Northern Iraq describes solitary jail cells and torture chambers.

Travel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade’s most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate. Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories (INCLUDES WAITING FOR THE TALIBAN, PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN EBOOK) By: Badkhen, Anna Price: $ In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade’s most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.