On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

Excellent memoir by one of the best foreign correspondents of today. Anyone interested in world affairs and recent history should grab this book and devour it. I did over a long weekend. Highly recommend.

I have been captivated by watching Clarissa give her reports from the most dangerous places. I was very interested in reading her book. I couldn’t put it down - I read it in one day. Her writing about her time in Middle East was so fascinating. I could imagine myself there with her, my heart was pounding at the same time she was describing her fears. My heart broke when she described the horrendous living situation for the civilians and her inability to help in a tangible way (her words from the book). I felt just as helpless for those affected. I learned so much more about the conflicts from her easy to understand writing. I felt so many emotions while reading this book and now that I am done I feel like it will be very hard to read another book this good. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to better understanding of what the reports/journalists see when they are trying to report truth and the humanity of the conflicts.

I think this book was pretty great and straightforward. It made continuous attention to the story that she was telling. While it isn’t a 5-stars hit but this book definitely hit the mark. We should be thankful for people like her who carrying the burden. The heavy weight that they brought to the public about the realities on the ground. It helps to weigh down our ignorance away being swelling. She earned my respect for what she does.

Thank you Clarissa for taking us through your incredible hardships while fostering your craft to capture the horrific atrocities going on in the far corners of our "modern" societies. The randomness of some humans to be born into privilege while other humans are birthed on make shift rafts fleeing death is real and we need to be reminded of it, have empathy for it as we are really all the same.Very much enjoyed the honest reflections from growing up, getting your first break to leading your teams into troubled territories as a seasoned veteran. The most strong and brave of us all have those same butterflies and self doubt while taking on those calculated dangers but the really good ones can do it humbly with self depreciating humor on how awkward, nerdy or scared we felt while still putting your head down and scrumming through.Thanks for pointing out that intelligent people see the grey because life is never black or white. Being a hard line zealot in any form is taking the easy route to anchor a thought process to, be it religion, politics, race, culture or what have you. People can't dehumanize and kill without only thinking in black and white, good vs evil. Refusing to learn the history and nuance of a scripture many hold so dear only to use that dumbed down iteration to compel masses to commit atrocities is the true evil that we've witnessed throughout history and is true to this day. Worst is the leaders usually do this knowingly for their own power.Lastly, you seem to be a cool and adventurous gal that many of us would love to through back a cocktail with. Hope you get to do it with your friend Austin. Cheers!

i happen to like memoirs and i happen to be drawn to the adventures of correspondents traveling the globe, so this book appealed to me. but that said, wow! what a well written book. and beautifully edited. ward is sharp, humane, generous and real. as others have already said, this book is hard to put down and once you are done with it, watch out because it's depressing trying to find another book as good as this to read. and all the while, i learned more about the logistics involved in her line of work and i came to better understand the dynamics in syria and how ISIS came to be. it's frustrating to "witness" so much conflict and so little regard in truly addressing these conflicts. it's true that we seem to sit home in the comfort of our heated homes hoping someone does something all the while we turn the page and do nothing more while we witness so few doing so little (including me). we need people like clarissa ward to bring the truth to our officials, to each of us so that we can try to ensure a deeper humanity in all parts of the world. at any rate, definitely buy this book. you'll read it more than once, i promise you.

Having enjoyed Clarissa Ward's TV reportages over the years on CBS and CNN from the world's most dangerous war zones and interviews with the world's most dastardly characters, I was curious to read her behind-the-scenes memoir. What kind of person voluntarily puts themselves in harm's way as regularly as Ward has done, from Iraq, to Syria to Lebanon to Afghanistan? Her rather genteel upraising with loving parents, English boarding school and a major of Comparative Lit from Yale do not seem the stuff from which fearless, intrepid war correspondents are made. And yet Ward seamlessly navigates both worlds: the posh high end of glamorous parties and the horrors of bombed out enclaves and drone strikes.I have never been a fan of memoirs, but On All Fronts provides so many details of the back stories behind the headline events, that I could not put the book down. A most instructive and moving recount of the life of one of America's most respected TV reporters.

Absolutely compelling story behind the scenes of one of our most remarkable tv journalists..a brilliant , courageous and talented writer.

Clarissa Ward is an iconic journalist whose book reads easily yet with great impact. She raised my esteem for journalists with this book.

Las interesantes coberturas de una periodista de guerra. Su vida dentro y fuera del trabajo, si es que alguna vez se lograba estar fuera del todo.

I just finish to read this book...I read it in a weekDespite the subject ... I found this book simply amazing..The author is excellent journalist ... other than a wonderful writer

Ward's biography is unbelievable. It's almost too extreme to be real. At six months pregnant she still visited war torn areas. The final three chapters of the book I just read in one sitting, in the middle of the night because I couldn't put it down. It is going to take me some time to process all of what I've just read.

A courageous woman, with a heart and smarts. Excellent writer and story-teller.Because she has covered so many conflicts, since 2003, her book is also a glance across our recent history, with her special view from the inside of those conflicts and her intelligence in analyzing them.I liked that it was Samantha Power who invited Ward to address the UN concerning Syria. Two excellent geopolitical women. Power’s book is called “The Education of an Idealist” and it is also excellent.A native Anglophone, at 20 Clarissa spoke French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. She subsequently added Arabic. She would use them all for her work and and in her personal life.“Bomb one terrorist and ten come to his funeral.”“Cannot file if dead.”“It never got any easier to understand or accept the randomness of privilege in this world.”“In a sense I had failed in my quest to act as a translator between worlds. There were too many who didn’t want to hear the stories of others, who felt that listening was tantamount to weakness, who believed that humanizing ‘the other’ was dangerous."But she does it anyway, thank God.