Veteran international war correspondent and filmmaker Venter, for reasons even he can't explain, has felt the compulsion to see what most civilians never see--violent conflict at its worst. In this book/memoir, Venter tells the tales of his many experiences with the violence of war as if he's sitting across a table from the reader: straight talk and lots of details. A lot of the locations will be more than familiar to readers: Lebanon, Biafra, Somalia, Israel, Uganda, Zaire, the Balkans, Baghdad. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)