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longstanding support. Photographer Teun Voeten accompanied me on many of my magazine assignments, and I would like to thank him for his companionship and his great work. And the book wouldn’t exist at all without the great advice and friendship of my agent, Stuart Krichevsky, as well as Paula Balzer and Shana Cohen at his office.

Then there are my family and friends, without whom I would not be the person I am, and therefore not the journalist either. That said, I would like to thank Janine DiGiovanni, Scott Anderson, John Falk, Rob Leaver, Don Beal, Khristine Hopkins, John Vaillant, Emery Vaillant, John Evans, Victoria Bruce, Shane Dubow, Amy Kimball, Jackie Ginley, and Stephen Zanichkowsky for their interest and involvement in my work. My mother and father, Ellen and Miguel Junger, and my sister, Carlotta, have also been tremendously supportive. I am sorry for the times that I have worried them while I was on assignment. I have dedicated this book to Ellis Settle, the uncle of my oldest friend, a man of incredible wisdom whose unshakable respect for the working men and women of this world I have tried to emulate my entire life. Without the great privilege of knowing him and his wife, Joanna, I would very possibly not be a journalist at all.

Finally, I would like to point out that the profession of foreign reporting wouldn’t even exist without the help of local people whose names never appear in articles, whose faces never appear on television screens. I would like to reserve my final thanks and admiration for the translators, fixers, drivers, guides, and sources who have helped me in the various countries I have worked. As locals, they take risks that no one with a foreign passport even has to contemplate. These people are too many to designate by name, but the crucial role they play in journalism should always be remembered.

ALSO BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER

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Copyright

Copyright © 2001 by Sebastian Junger

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications, where many of the pieces in this book originally appeared, in slightly different form:

Harper’s: “Dispatches from a Dead War,” August 1999

Men’s Journal: “Line of Fire,” October 1993; “Blow Up,” November 1994; “Escape from Kashmir,” April 1997

National Geographic Adventure: “Colter’s Way,” Spring 1999; “The Lion in Winter,” March/April 2001 Outside: “The Whale Hunters,” October 1995

Vanity Fair: “Kosovo’s Valley of Death,” July 1998; “The Forensics of War,” October 1999; “The Terror of Sierra Leone,” August 2000

The portions of “Dispatches from a Dead War” written by Scott Anderson are reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright © 1999 by Scott Anderson.

“Editor’s Note” to “Dispatches from a Dead War” Copyright © 1999 by Harper’s Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduced from the August issue by special permission.

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