Cover of Breathing the Fire

Breathing the Fire

While serving as a CBS News foreign correspondent in Iraq in 2006, the U.S. Army foot patrol she and her crew were filming was hit by a car bomb, killing some in the group and severely injuring her. This book recounts how the blast changed her life.

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