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092    BIO|bFERGUSON 
100 1  Ferguson, Jane,|eauthor. 
245 10 No ordinary assignment :|ba memoir /|cJane Ferguson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMariner Books,|c[2023] 
300    xiii, 320 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tPrologue : Kabul, August 2021 --|tUncle Desmond got 
       kicked by a cow --|tChicken shit --|tThe highest point --
       |tDubai girl --|t"Short virgins will never make good war 
       photographers" --|t"No openings" --|tCross fire --|t"Our 
       correspondent we are not naming for security reasons" --
       |tHoms --|tA killing --|tHelicopters under a full moon --
       |tA massacre in Cairo --|tThe scarlet woman award --
       |tUnder attack --|tGrowing basil in Beirut --|tNo foreign 
       accents --|tAuditioning --|tThumbing Humvees in Hell --|tA
       relapse --|tWomen of war--|tA bitter return --|t"I will be
       your leg" --|tCeremonies --|tThe deal of the century --
       |t"There is not a future for you here" --|tTaliban on the 
       march --|tThe fall. 
520    "From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an 
       unflinching memoir of ambition and war-from the Troubles 
       to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and
       '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to 
       know the truth. For her, war wascalled the Troubles, bomb 
       threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were
       commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire
       was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant for
       asking questions that cut through this culture of silence,
       while the unspoken tension in her village exploded into 
       abuse and rage at home. An opportunity to study Arabic in 
       Yemen after college came as a great relief, a ticket to a 
       different, adventurous life-and to the very center of the 
       story. Ferguson has since reported from nearly every war 
       front around the globe-from Yemen and Syria during the 
       Arab Spring, Afghanistan during the fall of Kabul, and 
       Ukraine during Russia's 2022 invasion-but her rise to the 
       highest ranks of journalism has been anything but 
       ordinary. As a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a 
       borrowed camera her only equipment, networks often told 
       her she simply had the wrong accent, even the wrong 
       appearance. Still, her ambition to build a life in 
       journalism on her own terms thrust her into harm's way 
       time and again. While other reporters chased "bang bang 
       shoot 'em up" stories, a different set of questions guided
       Ferguson's work, ones that gave faces and names to the 
       people experiencing these conflicts. In the face of grave 
       violence and suffering, giving voice to civilian lives 
       seemed a small act of justice, no matter the risks. For 
       fans of Samantha Power, Marie Colvin, and Ariel Levy, 
       Ferguson's bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from
       bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent 
       from the front lines of the most dangerous conflicts and 
       dire humanitarian crises of our time. With an open-hearted
       humanity we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary 
       Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic 
       career against theodds"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Ferguson, Jane. 
650  0 Women war correspondents|zNorthern Ireland|vBiography. 
650  0 War|xPress coverage. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft