I august 1994 bliver Angelique Umugwaneza sammen med sin familie og hundredtusinder af andre tutsier og hutuer drevet på flugt fra Rwanda efter folkemordet. Hun oplever massakrer, kaos og rædsler i flygtningekolonner og lejre, hvor mere end 800.000 mennesker dør af vold, sult og sygdom. Bogen fortæller kronologisk om flugten, om de humanitære nødhjælpslejre, om mødet med hjælpearbejdere og internationale organisationer samt om forsøget på at skabe et nyt liv i sikkerhed. "Rwandas børn" er en personlig, dokumentarisk fortælling om folkemord, krig, flygtninge og børns overlevelse set gennem én ung piges øjne. Type: Paperback Dokumentarisk beretning skrevet af Angelique Umugwaneza sammen med Peder Fuglsang om oplevelserne som barn og ung i forbindelse med folkemordet i Rwanda i 1994. Bogen følger hendes flugt gennem flygtningelejre, mødet med vold, sult og sygdom, adskillelsen fra familien
The Paradox of Humanitarian Action Summary: Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering Titel: Condemned to repeat? : the paradox of humanitarian action Forlag: Cornell University Press Udgivelsesår: 2002 Sider: 302 Sprog: Engelsk
The Quest for Radovan Karadzic For more than a decade Europe's most wanted man, Radovan Karadezic, evaded the combined efforts of western intelligence agencies, NATO peacekeepers and Hague investigators and maverick bounty hunters to track him down. When everybody else seemed to have given the hunt, one journalist doggedly followed his trail." Forfatter: Nick Hawton Forlag: Random House Udgivelsesår: 2010 Sider: 258 Sprog: Engelsk
Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists--the relief workers, reporters, delegates, and diplomats who believe that other people's misery is of concern to us all. And he brings us face-to-face with the new ethnic warriors--the warlords, gunmen, and paramilitaries--who have escalated postmodern war to an unprecedented level of savagery. Hard-hitting and passionate, The Warrior's Honor is a profound and searching exploration of the perils and obligations of moral citizenship in a world scarred by war and genocide. Titel: The Warrior's Honor Genre: Historie & Samfund Sammendrag: Siden begyndelsen af 1990’erne
Bogen følger Marie-France Botte, der under et ophold som udsendt medarbejder i en thailandsk flygtningelejr opdager, hvordan børn forsvinder og havner i Bangkoks bordeller. Hun forsøger at finde tre konkrete piger og afdækker undervejs et omfattende system af trafficking, korruption og mafia, der står bag børneprostitutionen. Læseren føres tæt på børnenes skæbner, bordelmiljøet, de lokale bagmænd og de udenlandske sexturister. Samtidig skildres forfatterens egen personlige risiko og flugt fra Bangkok, da hendes undersøgende arbejde gør hende til mål for de kriminelle bagmænd. Bogen kombinerer reportage, personlige oplevelser og samfundskritik og sætter fokus på seksuel udnyttelse af børn, turisme og global ulighed. Type: Paperback Dokumentarisk beretning om børneprostitution i Bangkok og Thailand. Forfatteren Marie-France Botte arbejdede et halvt år i en flygtningelejr i det nordlige Tha
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the great
Summary: "Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people,
Skrevet under Vietnamkrigen af den svenske forfatter og journalist.
