by Oriana Fallaci · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817158862
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«Sveglia Occidente. Dispacci dal fronte delle guerre dimenticate» is a collection of reportage by Oriana Fallaci in hardcover (464 pages, in Italian).
It brings together Oriana Fallaci's dispatches from several twentieth-century war fronts: Vietnam in 1969, the Al Fatah guerrillas, Cambodia, Bolivia, Haiti, Ceylon, Bangladesh and Kuwait. It includes her report on women in war, the interview with Jean-Claude Duvalier and the portrait of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the first woman to hold a head of government.
This collection belongs to the Saggi italiani series from Rizzoli; its texts were originally published in the Italian magazine L'Europeo.
It will appeal to those who enjoy war journalism, international reporting and twentieth-century history.
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She received various prizes for her work as a journalist and later wrote a number of best selling books.
