“Still Loving You” (Scorpions), 68
Stockholm syndrome, 202
Stoker, Bram, 33, 199
Stone, Dana, 198
Sunday Times, 7
Sunni Muslims, 151
in Lebanon, 5
in Syria, 65, 180, 225
Syria
abductions in, 173
Alpeyrie in, 22
Alpeyrie in (2002), 6
Alpeyrie in (2012), 7, 64–65
Alpeyrie in (2013), 2, 9–15
anti-Americanism in, 35
Assad leadership of, 2 (see also Assad, Bashar al-)
Christians in, 94, 112, 180
Damascus–Homs highway, 11–12, 122–23
dissent suppressed in, 2
fair-skinned people of the Levant in, 10
Foley abducted in, 220
lack of border demarcations, 8, 9
male relationships in, 29, 45, 92
military checkpoints in, 15
Roman artifacts in, 110, 115
Roman tombs in, 98
Sunnis in, 65, 180, 225
television programs, 82, 88, 89, 90, 99
torture and imprisonment in, 2
See also Damascus, Syria; Yabroud, Syria; specific locations
Syrian conflict, 6, 159
Alawites in, 65
Alpeyrie in combat zone, 2
Alpeyrie’s assessment of, 180–81
Alpeyrie’s release and interest in, 201–2
al-Qaeda and, 94, 121
American hostages in, 156, 157
atrocities and, 123, 180
Assad (government) forces, 11–12, 29, 37, 38, 65, 103, 122
Battle of Al-Qusayr, 7, 103
casualties, 227
chemical weapons used in, 179–80
complexity of, 127, 154, 237
conflict start (2011), 2
deaths of reporters and photographers in, 7–8
fighting near Damascus, 3, 5
France and, 65
Free Syrian Army rebels, 5, 10, 35, 38, 65–66, 202, 238 (see also specific people)
French journalists captured, 124, 128, 153
Hezbollah and, 8, 39, 65, 103
ISIS and, 94, 202
Jabhat al-Nusra and, 94, 121, 151
no-fly zone, 65
ransom as rebel funding, 21
Russian bombing, 116
Russian equipment used in, 7, 51, 62, 201
Russian planes and, 62, 116
Saudi funding for rebels, 21
Shia Muslims in, 65
Spanish journalists captured, 176–78
as Sunni-Shia struggle, 225
Swedish journalists captured, 174–75, 238
Turkey and, 65
U.S. and, 65, 66
See also Free Syrian Army
Syrian refugees
camps for, 12
from Homs, 12
in Lebanon, 5, 62
in Turkey, 65
T
Tahrir Square, Cairo, 198, 205, 206
arrests of journalists in, 207
Taliban, 74, 75, 76
Third Square movement, 206
Tice, Austin, 157
Tolstoy, Leo, 168
Turkey, 237
journalists and, 65
Syrian conflict and, 65
Syrian refugees in, 65
U
Ukraine, 198–99, 209–35
Aidar Battalion, 224
Alpeyrie in, 209–35, 239
Alpeyrie’s motivation for going to, 212–13, 216
Alpeyrie wounded in, 239
anti-EU, anti-Kyiv protesters, 216–17
Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), 217
artillery barrages in, 217–18, 219, 224, 230–32, 239
Azov Battalion, 221–22
battle for Debaltseve, 228–34
civil war in, 213, 217, 219–20, 221–22
combat photographers and journalists in, 219
corruption in, 210, 217
crackdown on protesters, 209, 210–11, 213
Donbas Battalion, 239
Donbas region, 210, 212, 216–17, 218, 229
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) established, 218–19
eastern part of the country, 210, 211, 212, 214, 216, 219
First Battle of Kiev (1941), 227
importance in European history and, 215–16
Kyiv’s Independence Square (the Euromaidan), 199, 209, 210–11, 213
lack of U.S. help for, 215
Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over, 218
nationalist resurgence in, 213, 214, 217
neo-Nazis in, 221, 224
neo-Stalinists in, 224
Orange Revolution (2004), 209
pincer movement and kessel in, 233
pro-EU support in, 209, 210
pro-Russian separatists, 210, 212, 214, 217, 218
riot police (Berkut), 209, 210–11
Russian Crimea takeover operation, 211–12
Russian-fomented uprisings in, 212
Russian military and, 220, 221, 228, 229
Russia’s revanchist designs on, 210, 217
steppes of, 215–16, 223
truce and Minsk Accords, 221, 223, 227, 228
Ukrainian volunteer battalions, 220, 221
withdrawal from EU Association Agreement, 209, 210, 213
World War II and, 213, 217, 227–28
Yanukovych government falls, 211
See also Kyiv, Ukraine; specific towns
United States
in Afghanistan, 75–76
Alpeyrie’s kidnapping and, 145–46
Alpeyrie’s youth in, 5, 25, 32, 56, 78, 193, 194
culture of, 201
Ethiopia and, 184
invasion of Iraq, 71, 184
Manifest Destiny, 71–72
outsourcing of interrogations by, 123
position in world affairs, 215
progressive liberal culture in, 184–85
refusal to ransom hostages, 177–78
Somali community in Minneapolis, 203
Syrian conflict and, 65, 66, 71, 215
terrorist recruitment in, 203
Ukraine and, 215
World War II and, 189–91
University of Chicago, 6, 185
U.S. Department of State, 194
V
Vietnam, 87
Vilanova, Ricardo, 176–78
Vitebsk, Belarus, 186–87
Vuhlehirsk, Ukraine, 229
W
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 168
World War I, 30–31, 69, 214
shell shock and, 73
World War II
Afrika Korps, 188
Allied invasion of Europe, 189–91
Alpeyrie’s project photographing veterans, 185–92
Alpeyrie mentally reenacts with paint chips, during captivity, 68–70
Alpeyrie’s Uncle Theo and, 69–70
Ardennes Offensive, 190
battle at the Falaise Pocket, 190
Battle of Dnieper, 217
Battle of Kursk, 217
British versus Soviet soldiers in, 188
casualties, 227, 228
Eighth Senegalese Colonial Regiment, 69
El Alamein, 188
First Battle of Kiev (1941), 227
German Sixth Army, 228
Operation Barbarossa, 71–72
Operation Uranus, 228
pincer movement and kessel, 227–28
Russian front, 186–87, 188
Siegfried Line, 190
Stalingrad and, 227–28
Ukraine and, 217
Ukraine’s Stepan Bandera and, 213
Waffen SS, 185–86, 191
war in North Africa, 188–89
Y
Yabroud, Syria, 8, 122, 144
abductions of journalists near, 175
Alfarook and, 120
Alpeyrie accused of spying, 33
Alpeyrie i
n, 9–13
Alpeyrie’s release and, 120
Christians in, 94
Internet in, 10
men from, at Alpeyrie’s interrogations, 35, 39, 51
population of, 94
rebel control of, 9, 12
shelling of, 11, 12
strategic importance of, 11
Yanukovych, Viktor, 209, 210, 211, 213
Yenakiyeve, Ukraine, 229
Yevgeny (Red Cross worker, Ukraine), 228–34
Yugoslav wars (1990s), 213, 216
Z
Zaporizhia, Ukraine, 212
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Names: Alpeyrie, Jonathan, author. | Luczkiw, Stash, co-author. | Timmermann, Bonnie, co-author.
Title: The shattered lens : a war photographer’s true story of captivity and survival in Syria /
Jonathan Alpeyrie with Stash Luczkiw and Bonnie Timmermann. Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017016403 (print) | LCCN 2017027082 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501146541 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501146503 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501146534 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Alpeyrie, Jonathan—Kidnapping, 2013. | Alpeyrie, Jonathan—Captivity, 2013. | Syria—History—Civil War, 2011—Biography. | Kidnapping—Syria—History—21st century. | Torture—Syria—History—21st century. | Survival—Syria—History—21st century. | Photojournalists—Biography. | War correspondents—Biography. | French Americans—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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