MY JOURNEY THROUGH WAR AND PEACE. EXPLORATIONS OF A YOUNG FILMMAKER, FEMINIST AND SPIRITUAL SEEKER - Tecno-Libro

MEMOiR 2017 SiLVER WiNNER OF iBPA BENJAMiN FRANKLiN AWARD .2016 .SiLVER Foreword iNDiES .AWARD WiNNER . For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Martha Beck, and Elizabeth Gilbert . in this adventurous spiritual memoir, Melissa Burch discovers that by facing her near death, living outside her comfort zone and trusting her intuition, she could find herself and set a new course for her life. My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch's experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her twenties when she traveled with the mujahideen, filmed an attack on a Soviet .convoy, slept with an Afghan commander, and climbed 14,000-foot mountains in th