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Title: Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya by Thomas Goltz ISBN: 0-312-26874-2 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent portal into a hellish conflict--and more
Comment: Chechnya Diary isn't your typical book about war. For one thing, it reads more like an adventure or a novel than straight history. It's also much more philosophical than I would have expected. The book begins with the quote, "The observer affects the observed," and boy is that statement ever borne out as the story unfolds.
Author Thomas Goltz sneaks into the country to cover the war, and ends up in a small town called Samashki, where he depends on the hospitality of a man named Hussein. Ostensibly there to record the fighting, Goltz soon becomes intimately involved, raising many tough questions about journalistic ethics and the effects of media war coverage.
The book really picks up steam in the second half, as Goltz returns to Chechnya to discover the damage his participation has caused, and tries to rectify it.
It's a thought-provoking book that provides background on the Chechnyan war but also goes far beyond that to dwell on how our shallow media culture affects our understanding of world events (and beyond that, how media coverage actually determines the course of those events as they play out). Goltz is a likable narrator who doesn't shy away from implicating himself when it comes to the sticky moral questions. He brings to life real Chechnyans in such vivid fashion that you'll remember them every time you hear about Chechnya in the news.
I had tears in my eyes as I finished the book. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: An eye-opening experience
Comment: Until I read 'Chechnya Diary' I was willing to accept what seemed to be conventional wisdom about the conflict in Chechnya--i.e., just another incidence of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Mr. Goltz provides another view: i.e., an effort (at least initally) to restore to a displaced people the homeland of which they were deprived by the Stalinst regime. I also found it refreshing to read something by a journalist who is willing to acknowledge that his presence may have an impact on the turn of events. All in all, I think this is a most enlightening book and, like Mr. Goltz's 'Azerbaijan Diary', a terrific adventure story.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read, even for non history buffs
Comment: Though a true story, laden with facts and names, Chechnya Diary by Thomas Goltz reads much more like a novel than other first person accounts of historical events. Goltz focuses much more on the personal side of the war, that of the Russians, Chechens, and most importantly, himself. The book becomes a point of philosophical reasoning that any person can relate to, war correspondent or not. Despite its factual, dry beginning, the book becomes a small window into the people affected by war, and how one small town copes with its many horrific problems.
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Title: A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaia, Alexander Burry, Tatiana Tulchinsky, Georgi Derluguian, Anna Politkovskaya ISBN: 0226674320 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff, Nicholas Daniloff ISBN: 0802714048 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaia, John Crowfoot, Anna Politovskaya, Anna Politkovskaya ISBN: 1860468977 Publisher: Harvill Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya by Anne Nivat, Susan Darnton ISBN: 1586480448 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall by Andrew Meier ISBN: 0393051781 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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