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In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance
sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek
an education, Malala Yousafzai defied all odds, emerging stronger
than ever. From a valley in Pakistan to the global stage, she
became a beacon of peaceful resistance and the youngest Nobel
laureate. I Am Malala is an extraordinary story of resilience, a
family shattered by terrorism and the power of one voice to inspire
change in the world. 'Moving and illuminating' OBSERVER
'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'Astonishing' SPECTATOR 'A tale
of immense courage and conviction' THE INDEPENDENT 'One finishes
the book full of admiration' SUNDAY TIMES 'Malala is a true
inspiration' THE SUN 'Piercingly wise' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2021 A Times and Sunday Times Best
Book of 2020 'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make
you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney
From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this
is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual
violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worked in war and
combat zones for over thirty years. In Our Bodies, Their
Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how
in today's warfare, rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias
as a weapon to humiliate, oppress and carry out ethnic cleansing.
Speaking to survivors first-hand, Lamb encounters the suffering and
bravery of women in war and meets those fighting for justice. From
Southeast Asia where 'comfort women' were enslaved by the Japanese
during World War Two to the Rwandan genocide, when an estimated
quarter of a million women were raped, to the Yazidi women and
children of today who witnessed the mass murder of their families
before being enslaved by ISIS. Along the way Lamb uncovers
incredible stories of heroism and resistance, including the Bosnian
women who have hunted down more than a hundred war criminals, the
Aleppo beekeeper rescuing Yazidis and the Congolese doctor who has
risked his life to treat more rape victims than anyone else on
earth. Rape may be as old as war but it is a preventable crime.
Bearing witness does not guarantee it won't happen again, but it
can take away any excuse that the world simply didn't know.
'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will
be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A
story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain
When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockdown was declared, Mike Matthews
wondered how his four-star hotel would survive. Then the council
called. The British government had launched a programme called '
Everyone In ' and 33 rough sleepers - many of whom had spent
decades on the street - needed beds.The Prince Rupert Hotel would
go on to welcome well over 100 people from this community, offering
them shelter, good food and a comfy bed during the pandemic. This
is the story of how that luxury hotel spent months locked down with
their new guests, many of them traumatised, addicts or suffering
from mental illness. As a world-leading foreign correspondent
turning her attention to her own country for the first time,
Christina Lamb chronicles how extreme situations were handled and
how shocking losses were suffered, how romances emerged between
guests and how people grappled with their pasts together.
Unexpected and profound, heart-warming and heartbreaking, this is a
tale that gives a panoramic insight into modern Britain in all its
failures, and people in all their capacities for kindness - even in
the most difficult of times.
Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the
world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and
travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. 'She is our hero. Everyone
must read her story. She will inspire you' - MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. This did not
stop her braving inconceivable odds to travel in her wheelchair
from Syria in search of a new life. Sharing her full story for the
first time, Nujeen recounts the details of her childhood and
disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey
across the Mediterranean to Greece and finally to Germany to seek
an education and the medical treatment she needs. Nujeen's story
has already touched millions and in this book written with
Christina Lamb, bestselling co-author of 'I Am Malala', she helps
to put a human face on a global emergency. Trapped in a fifth floor
apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herself
to speak English by watching US television. As civil war between
Assad's forces and ISIS militants broke out around them, Nujeen and
her family fled first to her native Kobane, then Turkey before they
joined thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe and
asylum. She wanted to come to Europe, she said, to become an
astronaut, to meet the Queen and to learn how to walk. In her
strong, positive voice, Nujeen tells the story of what it is really
like to be a refugee, to have grown up in a dictatorship only for
your life to be blighted by war; to have left a beloved homeland to
become dependent on others. It is the story of our times told
through the incredible bravery of one remarkable girl determined to
keep smiling.
This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline
by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times)
rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb. Paris as it
fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the
day Germany invaded Poland Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague
during the Munich crisis Lapland as the Russians attacked Moscow
betrayed by the Germans Virginia Cowles has seen it all. As a
pioneering female correspondent, she reported from the frontline of
1930s Europe into WWII always in the right place at the right time.
Flinging off her heels under shellfire; meeting Hitler ('an
inconspicuous little man'); gossiping with Churchill by his
goldfish pond; dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz ... Introduced by
Christina Lamb, Cowles' incredible dispatches make you an
eyewitness to the twentieth century as you have never experienced
it before. 'A tour-de-force.' Daily Mail 'Amazingly brilliant.' New
York Times 'Fascinating.' Justine Picardie 'Breathtaking.' Anna
Funder 'Thrilling.' Sue Prideaux 'An amazingly brilliant reporter
... One of the most engrossing [books] the war has produced.' New
York Times Book Review What readers are saying: The queen of
historical name-dropping Holy cow! What a wonderful find!! Most
unexpectedly great book that I have read in years. Reads like a
novel [but] this is real life. The best book I've read this year
... Exquisitely written [day-to-day] drama of history ...
Breathtakingly fresh. I can't recommend this book enough. Cowles'
voice and humanity are her greatest assets, but her willingness to
be where the action was - and always find trouble - paid off. A
marvel. Her ability to capture anecdotes and dialogue that offer
surprising insights into historic personages and events is a
frequent source of wonder. It was difficult for me not to drive my
family crazy wanting to read them quotes. The intrepid Virginia
Cowles was in the right places at the right times and connected to
the right people. What a life she led!
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in
Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find
themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had
launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held
on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ostrich farm. A
few months later, however, he arrived home to see his family
residence and livelihood violently seized by veterans -- and to his
shock saw his former maid Akwe at their head. By tracing the
intertwining lives of Nigel and Akwe -- rich and poor, white and
black, master and maid -- Christina Lamb not only presents both
sides of the Zimbabwean dilemma, but captures in achingly intimate
terms her own uplifting conviction that, although savaged, there is
still hope for one of Africa's most beautiful countries.
From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks
just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on
the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and
farmers? How did the West's war in Afghanistan and across the
Middle East go so wrong? Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned
success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States
in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is
the story of well-intentioned men and women going into a place they
did not understand at all. And how, what had once been the right
thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It
has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the
poorest and most dangerous nations on earth. The leading journalist
on the region with unparalleled access to all key decision makers,
Christina Lamb is the best-selling author of 'The Africa House' and
I Am Malala, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala
Yousafzai. This revelatory and personal account is her final
analysis of the realities of Afghanistan, told unlike anyone
before.
"Riveting.... It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more
moving, apart from perhaps the diary of Anne Frank." --"Washington
Post"
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one
girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought
for her right to an education. In October 2012, when she was 15,
Malala almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head
while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to
survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an
extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to
the halls of the United Nations in New York. At 16, she became a
global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hailed by the Associated Press for its "arresting detail," I AM
MALALA will make readers believe in the power of one person's voice
to inspire change in the world.
INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTION I've stopped pulling up my scarf to
cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can
stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is
for the greater good. Following the death of Mahsa-Jina Amini in
September 2022, the angry cries of the Iranian people have rung out
in the streets. Citizens of all ages and backgrounds come together
to call for an end to the regime's injustice, violence and
repression, chanting 'Woman, life, freedom'. The current protests
are the most widespread and important the country has seen since
the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But they are also part of a long
struggle for women's rights in Iran. In this incisive, moving
narrative, an anonymous Iranian woman describes her daily activism
in the streets of Tehran, and shows it to be part of a long and
powerful tradition of female resistance. Translated by Poupeh
Missaghi.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one
girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought
for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid
the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range
while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to
survive.
Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an
extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to
the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has
become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee
ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I AM MALALAis the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global
terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who,
himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to
write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce
love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
I AM MALALAwill make you believe in the power of one person's voice
to inspire change in the world.
In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Browne built himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades, rose gardens and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. He wanted to share it with the love of his life, the beautiful, unconventional Ethel Locke King, one of the first women to drive and fly. She, however, was nearly twenty years his senior, married and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman he had ever really cared for, had married another many years earlier. Then he met Lorna's orphaned daughter, so like her mother that he thought he had seen a ghost. It seemed he had found companionship and maybe even love - but the Africa House was his dream and it would be a hard one to share. Christina Lamb's best-selling account of this fascinating and complicated man - a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported independence, a stiff Englishman with deep passions - is a masterpiece of biographical storytelling. It is a tale of fantasies made real, tragedy endured and life-long love.
This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline
by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times)
rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her
'the Forrest Gump of journalism'). Paris as it fell to the Nazis
London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded
Poland Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during the Munich
crisis Lapland as the Russians attacked Moscow betrayed by the
Germans Virginia Cowles has seen it all. As a pioneering female
correspondent, she reported from the frontline of 1930s Europe into
the Second World War, always in the right place at the right time.
Flinging off her heels under shellfire; meeting Hitler ('an
inconspicuous little man'); gossiping with Churchill by his
goldfish pond; dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz ... Introduced by
Christina Lamb, Cowles' incredible dispatches make you an
eyewitness to the twentieth century as you have never experienced
it before. 'An amazingly brilliant reporter ... One of the most
engrossing [books] the war has produced.' New York Times Book
Review What readers are saying: The queen of historical
name-dropping Holy cow! What a wonderful find!! Most unexpectedly
great book that I have read in years. Reads like a novel [but] this
is real life. The best book I've read this year ... Exquisitely
written [day-to-day] drama of history ... Breathtakingly fresh. I
can't recommend this book enough. Cowles' voice and humanity are
her greatest assets, but her willingness to be where the action was
- and always find trouble - paid off. A marvel. Her ability to
capture anecdotes and dialogue that offer surprising insights into
historic personages and events is a frequent source of wonder. It
was difficult for me not to drive my family crazy wanting to read
them quotes. The intrepid Virginia Cowles was in the right places
at the right times and connected to the right people. What a life
she led!
'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer
'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY
MOVED' Michael Palin FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB Journalist Samar
Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising
in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and
secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful
and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of
her homeland. From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the
arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive,
to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so
many are now desperate to flee.
Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for
Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent
two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over
the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of their
country in a variety of guises.
Returning to Afghanistan after the attacks on the World Trade
Center to report for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, Lamb discovered
the people no one else had written about: the abandoned victims of
almost a quarter century of war. Among them, the brave women
writers of Herat who risked their lives to carry on a literary
tradition under the guise of sewing circles; the princess whose
palace was surrounded by tanks on the eve of her wedding; the
artist who painted out all the people in his works to prevent them
from being destroyed by the Taliban; and Khalil Ahmed Hassani, a
former Taliban torturer who admitted to breaking the spines of men
and then making them stand on their heads.
Christina Lamb's evocative reporting brings to life these
stories. Her unique perspective on Afghanistan and deep passion for
the people she writes about make this the definitive account of the
tragic plight of a proud nation.
One of the world's leading female photojournalists presents a
powerful photo essay of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan,
offering the most complete visual narrative history of this pivotal
Middle East country currently in print. ". . . the book is a
must-see for anyone with any interest in Afghanistan, the plight of
women internationally or photography." -Kim Barker, New York Times
Lens BlogWinner, International Photography Award, 1st Place,
Professional: Book, Documentary, 2016 The Afghan people are
standing at a crucial crossroads in history. Can their fragile
democratic institutions survive the drawdown of US military
support? Will Afghan women and girls be stripped of their modest
gains in freedom and opportunity as the West loses interest in
their plight? While the media have largely moved on from these
stories, Paula Bronstein remains passionately committed to bearing
witness to the lives of the Afghan people. In this powerful photo
essay, she goes beyond war coverage to reveal the full complexity
of daily life in what may be the world's most reported on yet least
known country. Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear presents a
photographic portrait of this war-torn country's people across more
than a decade. With empathy born of the challenges of being an
American female photojournalist working in a conservative Islamic
country, Bronstein gives voice to those Afghans, particularly women
and children, rendered silent during the violent Taliban regime.
She documents everything from the grave trials facing the
country-human rights abuses against women, poverty and the
aftermath of war, and heroin addiction, among them-to the stirrings
of new hope, including elections, girls' education, and work and
recreation. Fellow award-winning journalist Christina Lamb
describes the gains that Afghan women have made since the overthrow
of the Taliban, as well as the daunting obstacles they still face.
An eloquent portrait of everyday life, Afghanistan: Between Hope
and Fear is the most complete visual narrative history of the
country currently in print.
"From now on, it's drones, baby, drones" - Robert Gates, former
U.S. Defense Secretary Three writers. Two plays. One vital tale of
power, sex and infighting at the top of the Washington
establishment, and its far-reaching repercussions. As Barack Obama
prepares to leave office, this world premiere double bill probes
behind the scenes of America's controversial drone wars, and asks
what they will mean for our future. This Tuesday It's 5a.m. A CIA
director learns her daughter has been injured in a car crash, a
White House security adviser is sleeping with an intern, a Pentagon
General is working out in the gym. This Tuesday, in an hour, they
have a vital decision to make. The Kid Wednesday. A missile hits a
wedding in Pakistan. 7000 miles away, two drone operators begin
their celebration. Pushing the button was the start. If only it
were the end...
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