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On a wintry night in February 1989, 22-year-old Deborah Copaken Kogan is the lone female among a group of Afghan freedom fighters ridiing through the Hindu Kush mountains. "In my lap, hopping atop my thighs as the truck lurches, as my body shivers, sits a sturdy canvas Domke bag filled with Nikons and Kodachrome film, which I'm hoping to use to photograph the pullout of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Actually, I have no idea how to photograph a Soviet pullout. Though this is my second story as a photojournalist, I'm still not clear on what it is photojournalists actually do in a real war." What follows is a humorous memoir of a young woman finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world. It is a coming-of-age story about how one woman fought her way on to battlefields, and the danger, pain, truths and love she discovered there.