https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BG-Wait-for-Me-Prologue-Excerpt-1.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 19 September 2022 — You now can listen to the audio version of my memoir, “Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll.” Here is the Prologue of the book. Sadly, war is a constant in human history. Only a fraction of that time is free of war — killing and destroying on a mass scale. My memoir is a firsthand, frontline account of the human cost of war. Read, or listen to it, and get to know the recipients of U.S. foreign policy. You can buy the audio version of “W ..read more

  https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BG-Wait-for-Me-Prologue-Excerpt-1.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 19 September 2022 — You now can listen to the audio version of my memoir, “Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll.” Here is the Prologue of the book. Sadly, war is a constant in human history. Only a fraction of that time is free of war — killing and destroying on a mass scale. My memoir is a firsthand, frontline account of the human cost of war. Read, or listen to it, and get to know the recipients of U.S. foreign policy. You can buy the audio version of “W ..read more

https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WaitForMe_Introduction_042522_AS.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 11 September 2022 — I wrote this book because I had to. Because I needed to. In this audio version of the memoir’s Introduction, I explain why and how I put the book together. Take a listen at https://billgentile.com/news/listen-to-wait-for-me-intro/https://billgentile.com/news/listen-to-wait-for-me-intro/ If you like what you hear, you can purchase the audio version of the entire book on audiobooks: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/592608/?refId=40886 Or here on Amazon: https://tinyurl ..read more

WASHINGTON, DC, 4 September 2022 — After a summer of professional and personal endeavors, I’m back posting brief sections of the audio version of my memoir, “Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll.” I think it makes sense to begin with the book’s “Author’s Note,” in which I discuss the origins and the intentions of the book. Regarding this picture, that’s me in 1987 talking with poor Nicaraguans living around the massive dump of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. This must have been when I was working on my book of photographs, a glimpse of which you can see here ..read more

https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TheContraWar_01.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 17 July 2022 — The Contra War unfolded almost exclusively in the country’s northern mountains bordering Honduras with minor incursions from Costa Rica led by Sandinista defectors. Fighting never really came to the capital, which posed special challenges for people like me who wanted to cover the conflict. To do so, I had three options: (1) Insert ourselves into units of the Sandinista People’s Army fighting in the northern mountains. (2) Embed with contra fighters infiltrating Nicaragua from bases in Hondur ..read more

WASHINGTON, DC, 29 June 2022 — What do a crisis reporter and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine think about “just” wars and the current conflict in Ukraine? You are invited to join us for A “Just” War? to find out! When: Thursday July 14th from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Where: American University’s Bender Library or virtually via Zoom. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/yckjxt45 Award winning journalist Bill Gentile and special guest Ambassador William B. Taylor will discuss “just” wars, Ukraine, and truth in conflict reporting during a special hybrid event. As the Ukrainian crisis rages on, Genti ..read more

https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/04.My-Nicaraguan-Family.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 4 June 2022 — When my memoir made its debut, legendary foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief for Mexico and Central America Alan Riding was kind enough to review the book for ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America. He wrote: “I was an old hand in Central America by the time Gentile was sent by United Press International (UPI)’s Mexico bureau to help out with reporting the Sandinista revolution that toppled the Somoza dynasty in July 1979. But our lives barely overlapped. Afte ..read more

https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/03.Immigrants.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 28 May 2022 — “I am the proud grandson and son of Italian immigrants who came to the United States to forge lives for their sons and their daughters better than their own.” That’s how I start this chapter of my memoir, “Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll.” And especially now, when immigrants are attacked online and in the streets, it’s important to remember who we are as a nation. Unless the blood that runs through your body is the blood of Native Americans, YOU also are a member of th ..read more

  https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WaitForMe_Retail-Sample-1.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 21 MAY 2022 — I’m delighted to post this image and audio excerpt from my memoir, Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll. The audio version of the book was released a couple of weeks ago and I’m finding it to be an exciting component of the overall process. It grants me the opportunity to re-visit the places and the times documented in the print version of the memoir. As I say in this excerpt, and still today, I sometimes “long for, and then basked in, the purity, the dis ..read more

https://billgentile.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WaitForMe_RetailSample3.mp3 WASHINGTON, DC, 18 May 2022 — You now can LISTEN to excerpts from my memoir, Wait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll. Former Miami Herald photojournalist Murry Sill made this image of me while we were embedded with Sandinista Army forces in Nicaragua’s northern mountains during the early 1980s. You can find the audio book at a number of outlets including: Kobo, Walmart Libro.FM Scribd Audiobooks.com All the best, Bill Gentile   The post “Wait for Me” audio book excerpt appeared first on Bi ..read more