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By Carsten Stormer,Dominik Schiess,Roger Gwynn

"I had simply accomplished my journalism direction and was once firmly confident that the media have been looking forward to me with bated breath. i'm prepared, i presumed. i used to be particularly certain i might win the Pulitzer prize that very same 12 months; i used to be brimming with self-worth and eagerness. ultimately i may change book-learning for fact and truly believe the heartbeat of lifestyles. A conflict used to be occurring in Afghanistan; what then will be greater than to begin my occupation as a journalist there? in the end i'll sally forth and do what numerous males had performed sooner than me: i might visit war.“

'To the back and front’ are stories from ten years on world’s frontlines. From Afghanistan to Darfur, from Somalia to Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma and the Philippines.

This is a private trip of a tender, naïve, experience looking guy desperately attempting to fill his lifestyles with a objective. And to eventually locate it in journalism: to inform tales and be the voice if you haven't any one to talk for them. Carsten Stormer's tale is one in all ardour, discomfort and fact. it is a testomony to people who hazard their lives daily. when you make it out, and for these whose reminiscence will live to tell the tale via this extraordinary memoir.

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