How to Survive in a War Zone

Alex Crawford has been interrogated by more than one intelligence agency, rescued by the US Army, fired at live on air, and experienced some of the most dangerous places in the world.She is the only journalist to have won the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year Award three times. She has also won an Emmy, two Golden Nymphs, the Bayeux War Correspondents Award, and the prestigious James Cameron Award, being cited by the judges for her ‘work as a journalist that combined moral vision and professional integrity’. She was awarded the OBE for Services to Broadcast Journalism in the 2012 New Year's Honours List.After growing up in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Alex began her career at the Wokingham Times before moving to the BBC and eventually Sky News, where she is currently Special Correspondent specialising in the Gulf, Middle East and AfricaAlex lives in Johannesburg with her husband Richard, one son and three daughters.

AMAZON REVIEWS: "It has real pace and emotional power - so much so, that despite the compulsion to keep turning the pages, there are times when you just can't, and you have to pause to regroup and realign your own emotional reserves." -Roger Risborough "Reading Colonel Gadaffi's Hat was like sprinting a marathon. The intensity of what was experienced, physically and emotionally leaves one 'breathless'. Alex's vivid account of the revolution as it unfolds keeps you sprinting through the pages. Phew!" -George Donal "Alex shows her true grit and dedication in getting the real story out. She effortlessly manages to portray what life is like for a war correspondent (everything you don't get to see in the 2 minute TV reports) ...this book is a rarity in that once you start reading you can't stop!" -Sara "This is a sweaty, first-person, present-tense account of broadcast news at its most exhilarating, immediate and instinctive." -Beardy "Page after page is filled with stories of ducking and diving, dodging and weaving as she overcomes any barrier in her way to get to the guts of the story and the hearts of the people. I was gripped from start to finish as she took me on a roller coaster of adrenaline, nail-biting and a couple of sneaky tears. Utterly brilliant." -Kate "Alex's unbelivable experiences and compassion for the people of Libya make this book impossible to put down. I remember watching Alex and her team travel into Tripoli on the rebel convoy last August and found myself fighting to turn the TV off as it was so late at night. This book had the same effect; gripping from beginning to end." -Kirsty Benbow "As she takes us with her inside that death-trap of a mosque in Zawiya, onto the frontline in Misrata and riding into Tripoli with the liberating rebels, what comes bursting through is Alex's compassion, her professionalism and her humanity." -Jeremy Thompson