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About the Author
HOLLIE S. MCKAY is an investigative and international affairs/war journalist with over fourteen years of specialized focus on warfare, terrorism, and crimes against humanity.
Hollie has worked on the frontlines of several major war zones and covered humanitarian and diplomatic crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other areas.
Her globally-spanned coverage, in the form of thousands of print articles and essays, has included exclusive and detailed interviews with numerous captured terrorists, as well as high-ranking government, military, and intelligence officials and leaders from all sides.
She has spent considerable time embedded with US and foreign troops, conducted extensive interviews with survivors of torture, sex slavery and forced child jihadist training, refugees, and internally-displaced people to communicate the complexities of such catastrophes and war crimes on local populations.
Hollie’s columns have been featured in the Wall Street Journal and her writings referenced in innumerable mainstream publications and academic journals. Additionally, she has won numerous foreign press and humanitarian awards.
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ONLY CRY FOR THE LIVING
Journalist Hollie S. McKay offers a raw, on-the-ground journey chronicling the rise of ISIS in Iraq—exposing the group’s vast impact and how and why it sought to wage terror on civilians in a desperate attempt to create an antiquated “caliphate.”
AFGHANISTAN: THE END OF THE U.S. FOOTPRINT AND THE RISE OF THE TALIBAN RULE
Veteran war reporters – writer Hollie McKay and photographer Jake Simkin – walk you through the fall of the U.S. and the rise of the Taliban, drawing you into the minds of the new regime and into the hearts of the Afghanistan people.“Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule” is a chilling bloody, yet beautiful visual expedition through one of the most magical yet wounded parcels of the planet. It is a place where poppies grow wild and men in the mountains cradle guns like children. It’s a place where kites fly high, and everyone has a war story, even though most never chose to go to war.
THE DICTATOR’S WIFE
A young Hollywood native finds herself ensnared in a treacherous web of power and deception when she becomes the unexpected bride of a ruthless Middle East dictator.
Caught in the crossfire of death and destruction – and becoming the target of global condemnation herself – Anna is forced to grapple with her fallibility as a government figurehead and navigate the complex web of who can and cannot be trusted in and out of her gilded Palace bubble. As the painful secrets of her past and the ramifications of an entire life fighting a psychological war come to light, the First Lady remains bitterly determined to record her version of events before it is too late.
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AFGHANISTAN
”Hollie and Jake have assembled a major work that will be an academically-sound and historical reference for generations to come. The end of the US effort in Afghanistan was witnessed first-hand by Hollie and Jake, and they have put their experiences, analyses, and facts together for a wide audience. This will be one of those books that domain experts will display behind them when they do TV news interviews and webinars about foreign policy, counterinsurgency, and modern history. This is also an excellent gift for anyone connected to Afghanistan, especially those who served there.” –Amazon ReviewONLY CRY FOR THE LIVING
”Only Cry For the Living is a harrowing read. It is often difficult, heart wrenching, horrifying, and downright shocking. To hear what many of these survivors have gone through truly shows the barbarity so many humans are capable of inflicting upon their own kind.” –GoodReads Review