The job of a war correspondent is exceptionally important, bringing eyewitness accounts of death, destruction and deception, but it can also be very dangerous and sometimes deadly.
This was the case for Marie Colvin, well known to readers of the Sunday Times, who died in Syria in 2012. Her friend, Channel 4 journalist Lindsey Hilsum, has now written a biography of her called In Extremis.
"Marie was an extraordinary woman. She was somebody who always went in further and stayed longer. I like to think of us as the Thelma and Louise of the press corps, but she was way braver than me."
Marie wore a distinctive eye patch, due to an injury she sustained reporting on the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka in 2001, when she was ambushed by government soldiers. But this didn't deter her from continuing her work.
The title of the book comes from Marie's desire to tell what really happens in war, and to tell the stories of people "going through the unendurable", but it also refers to her sometimes complex personal life.
Lindsey joined us on The Last Word to discuss the Marie Colvin that she knew.
To catch the full chat press the play button on the image on the top of the screen
