Rosie Garthwaite is a TV journalist who works in the Middle East. How to Avoid Being Killed in a Warzone: The Essential Survival Guide, published by Bloomsbury in May 2011, is her first book. She wrote the book to provide the information which friends and colleagues travelling to warzones and other extreme destinations were always asking her for. She began her journalistic career as a freelance reporter in Basra, Iraq when she had just left University, so she learned about survival through personal experience. She lives in Doha, Qatar.
