Breathing the Fire ─ Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight

From the race of the rescue to the feeling of waking to find your body destroyed, this is what it takes to fight back from war. Kimberly Dozier's Breathing the Fire reveals the ordeal of countless combat veterans and civilians - told moment by moment by a reporter who lived and almost died with them. The story of her amazing recovery is a triumph of modern military triage, state-of-the-art medical care, and the strength of the individual heart and will.

Covering events for the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for CBS News, Kimberly Dozier earned a reputation for being on top of the news, from disputed territories of Israel to the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. She reported on the war in Iraq from 2003 until she was injured by a car bomb in 2006. She recently returned to Iraq as an Intelligence/Counterterrorism correspondent for the Associated Press.

Previously she was London Bureau Chief for CBS Radio News, has received four Gracie Awards and a Peabody Award, inlcuding one for her body of work in Iraq, has done reporting for the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and been featured on CBS Primetime and in Glamour magazine.