New Hartford native Scott Wallace is an award-winning writer and photojournalist who has reported on armed conflict, the environment, and vanishing cultures from some of the world’s most volatile hotspots. An associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut, Wallace is a long-time contributor of National Geographic and bestselling author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes. He covered the civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala throughout the 1980s for CBS News, Newsweek, and The Guardian—experiences that form the basis for his new book, Central America in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road from Vietnam to Iraq.

Journeying along the frontlines of those conflicts, Wallace evolved a distinctive reporting style that included photojournalistic portraits of startling intimacy, page-turning tales of high adventure, and incisive analysis of the events he witnessed. He brings the full range of his skills as a storyteller and photographer to bear in Central America in the Crosshairs of War—an unforgettable account of a journalist coming of age as he seeks the truth amid a landscape rife with death and deception.

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