My Journey through War and Peace is a memoir of Melissa Burch. She relates her adventures while a film maker/ journalist in Afghanistan and the Soviet Union when it was very rare for women to venture into those areas to report. She is very honest and vulnerable in sharing her life journey. This memoir could have easily been twice as long. I would love to hear more about her travels and insights personally as a filmmaker overseas. She is very descriptive, documenting the look of the scene in the various events of her life that she speaks to in this memoir; what I would expect from a film maker. I feel this memoir just barely touched the surface of a very complex women. Many passages left me wanting to know more about what was going on internally with her during the events in her life that were turning points