Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other HellholesPrize winning author and award winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century. From crumbling Havana, Cuba still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall to a comparatively upscale Hanoi, Vietnam, still struggling to free itself from Chinese style authoritarian rule. From a nightmarish Libya under the deranged Moammar Qaddafi, to an