I LOST MY LOVE IN BAGHDAD: A Modern War Story

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, (2008).. (2008).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL HASTINGS IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The corners and edges of the covers are creased and the rear cover is slightly rubbed. ix, [iii] & 276 pages. There are a couple of small stains to the fore-edge of the book. Good. <p>First Australian edition of the author's first book, published in the same year as the first American.<p>Inscribed and signed by Michael Hastings on the title page in the year of publication.<p>The American author and journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013) was a reporter for BuzzFeed and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. He rose to prominence for his coverage of the war in Iraq for Newsweek. His first book "I Lost My Love in Baghdad" is a biographical memoir of his relationship with his fiancee Andi Parhamovich and of her tragic death when her car was ambushed in Iraq. His 2010 Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal "The Runaway General" cost the General his command. Hastings subsequently elaborated on his earlier travels with McChrystal in his 2012 book "The Operators". A critic of the NSA's domestic surveillance program, Hastings had e-mailed his colleagues that he was being investigated by the FBI shortly before his death in a motor vehicle accident on the morning of June 18, 2013.<p>In our opinion, Michael Hastings, apart from being a fine writer, was one of the most important and courageous journalists of our time.<p>Books signed by Hastings are rare in commerce.