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Breathing the Fire

Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight
Kimberly Dozier
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Product Type: Paperback / softback

Description

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CBS Foreign Correspondent Kimberly Dozier shares her compelling story from being injured in Iraq to her recovery...shedding light on the ordeal faced by countless combat veterans and civilians.

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Pages 288
Publish Date 2011-08-01
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Size 6.5" x 9.0" x 0.75"
Author Kimberly Dozier

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based: military figures in the field are all good, administrators, not so much. Nurses and corpsmen are good, doctors tend to be evil. (This is one area where exceptions can be found, notably Dr. Dunne at Bethesda) Additionally, Dozier spends a decent amount of the book justifying herself, her life and her career choices. While understandable given the context, at times it doesn't come across very well. She mentions in the postscript to the paperback edition that with some time and distance, she saw the writing as "angry" and chose not to edit that out, as it was her true self at that time. I didn't sense anger so much as defensiveness and I don't know that Dozier has anything about which to be defensive.
Kimberly Dozier is a former CBS news correspondent who became the news during an embed assignment in Baghdad over the Memorial Day weekend in 2006. What was to be a 'routine' assignment, if such a thing existed, turned into a hellish nightmare after a 500 pound car bomb was detonated at the scene. Assigned to follow a patrol over the holiday while Americans at home were eating their barbeque and doing their best to forget about the war, the incident put the war back 'above the fold'. Four members of the party, Captain ames Alex Funkhouser, USA, CBS cameraman Paul Douglas, CBS soundman James Brolan and Captain Funhouser's Iraqi translator, Sam, died at the scene, all but Douglas, instantly. Breathing the Fire is Dozier's account of that day and the aftermath it wrought. The story is engrossing, and as a reporter, Dozier makes it a compelling read. The book opens with Dozier setting the scene the night before the assignment. From there she darts back and forth through time, recounting the story as well as how she put the pieces of the story together. Not unusually for a traumatic brain injury (TBI) sufferer, it took a lot of time and a lot of digging to get the pieces to fall into place. She had to rely on information from outside sources until her slowly recovering brain could fill in all the facts. Breathing the Fire gives an in
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blow of the bombing also starts conversations between troops and loved ones about what they've seen overseas.
The book is fairly gritty and unvarnished about the hospital and recovery process, so hospital staff recommend that loved ones read it to understand what a patient is going through. Military commanders say the blow
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blow of the bombing also starts conversations between troops and loved ones about what they've seen overseas.
The book is fairly gritty and unvarnished about the hospital and recovery process, so hospital staff recommend that loved ones read it to understand what a patient is going through. Military commanders say the blow

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About the Author

Covering events for the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for CBS News, Kimberly Dozier earned a reputation for being on top of the news, from disputed territories of Israel to the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. She reported on the war in Iraq from 2003 until she was injured by a car bomb in 2006. She recently returned to Iraq as an Intelligence/Counterterrorism correspondent for the Associated Press. Previously she was London Bureau Chief for CBS Radio News, has received four Gracie Awards and a Peabody Award, including one for her body of work in Iraq, has done reporting for the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and been featured on CBS Primetime and in Glamour magazine. www.kimberlydozier.co

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