Christina Lamb
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the bang-bang war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
640 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
A gripping expose of the Allied Forces occupation of Afghanistan. The failure of the West in Afghanistan is unquestionably devastating and despite efforts to eliminate the Taliban from the country, their presence has continued to grow. Insurgent attacks have also increased, and the region still struggles against poverty, an unstable infrastructure and a huge number of land mines. Initially billed as the West's success story by both Bush and Blair,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the inspiring story of Syrian refugee Nujeen Mustafa, who after being born with cerebral palsy and denied an education because of her disability made a harrowing journey by wheelchair from her war-ravaged home to safety in Germany.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Yo soy Malala, de Christina Lamb y Malala Yousafzai, es el excepcional relato de una familia desterrada por el terrorismo global, de la lucha por la educación de las niñas, de un padre que, él mismo propietario de una escuela, apoyó a su hija y la alentó a escribir y a ir al colegio, y de unos padres valientes que quieren a su hija por encima de todo en una sociedad que privilegia a los hijos varones. Yo soy Malala nos hace creer en el poder...