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Into Danger

Katie Adie promotes her new book Into Danger, which was published yesterday, in The Telegraph. She discusses why people like her choose to go to war and other dangerous places to work,
One of the questions I am frequently asked is: ''What is the most dangerous thing that's happened to you?" But I find it impossible to classify ''dangerous". Is it worse to be shot at by a drunk at close range than to have a knife held to your throat by a slightly psychotic drunk? Discuss. How about mortars landing round your vehicle versus machine-gun fire directly on to it? link