"Though her dispatches brought her numerous awards and fame in England and in every major conflict zone in the world, she was less known in her own country. Unlike Gellhorn, she did not leave a literary legacy; her genius was for low-to-the-ground newspaper reporting. Her writing had a strong moral undertow. She functioned best when she was on the scene. In spite of the massive changes of the last 25 years brought on by the high-tech presence of Twitter and YouTube, Colvin continued to believe that war reporting remained the same: you had to be there. "How do I keep my craft alive in a world that doesn't value it? I feel like I am the last reporter in the YouTube world," she told her close friend Katrina Heron. "I am inept with technology." Heron, the former editor of Wired, sent her frequent tech advice.

She pushed into combat zones that made her drivers sometimes vomit from fear. Yet she dreaded becoming "this smelly, exhausted pseudo-man," as she wrote in British Vogue in 2004 when explaining her "defiant preference" for satin and lace underwear in the trenches. In the hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds in the head and chest in Sri Lanka, she received a missive from her editor, who had seen pictures of her wounded and semi-naked in the field. He asked her to "tell us about your lucky red bra." He did not realize that the bra was "cream (lace cups, double satin straps) but had turned red because it was drenched in my blood," Colvin wrote. She added that militia had broken into her hotel room in East Timor and that "all my La Perla knickers and bras had been stolen. How weird is that?" They had "left behind a radio, tape recorder... even a flak jacket." Not long before she left for Homs, she told Heron, "I would like to have a saner life. I just don't know how."

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