{"id":4261,"date":"2023-04-07T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2023-04-07T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:38:31","slug":"the-angel-of-the-grozny-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"The Angel of Grozny \/ Book \/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2018The best book in English about one of the world\u2019s most brutal and under-reported conflicts \u2026 fascinating\u2019 Christina Lamb,&nbsp;<em>Sunday Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early hours of New Year\u2019s Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. Asne Seierstad regularly reported on the war, describing its effects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst the violence. In 2006 and 2007 she returned, travelling in secret, in constant danger. The tragedy of Chechnya had continued but the world had moved on. In a broken and devastated society, she meets the orphans, the wounded, the lost \u2013 and tells their stories at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018I devoured this in a few hours \u2013 a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong>SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Invaluable \u2026 she has a real eye for detail and the human heart of a story&nbsp;<\/strong>OBSERVER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-Angel-of-Grozny-Orphans-of-a-Forgotten-War.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The Angel of Grozny.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-279ed7f2-7f02-4701-9dd6-36fc780849cc\" href=\"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-Angel-of-Grozny-Orphans-of-a-Forgotten-War.pdf\">The Angel of Grozny<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-Angel-of-Grozny-Orphans-of-a-Forgotten-War.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-279ed7f2-7f02-4701-9dd6-36fc780849cc\"><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The best book in English about one of the world\u2019s most brutal and under-reported conflicts \u2026 fascinating\u2019 Christina Lamb,&nbsp;Sunday Times In the early hours of New Year\u2019s Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. Asne Seierstad regularly reported on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,28,559],"tags":[576,197,279,508],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-43","category-28","category-zharg","tag-the-angel-of-grozny","tag-197","tag-279","tag-508",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pankisi.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}