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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781474605762 | ISBN 10: 1474605761
Astonishing insight into the life of a humanitarian psychiatrist working in war and disaster zones around the world - from Bosnia and 'mission-accomplished' Iraq, to tsunami-affected Aceh, post-earthquake Haiti and 'the Jungle' in Calais. Wh ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781566560757 | ISBN 10: 1566560756
In the summer of 2014, Gaza was attacked by Israel for the fourth time since 2006. This attack lasted fifty-one days. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor, had worked at al-Shifa Hospital during each previous conflict, and in July 2014 he went back there ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952405 | ISBN 10: 0241952409
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War . . . ' Yet the ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087884 | ISBN 10: 1844087883
The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people. For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mo ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141392219 | ISBN 10: 0141392215
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fe ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340963579 | ISBN 10: 0340963573
Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846040764 | ISBN 10: 1846040760
'I've been up since 4 a.m, preparing for the enemy's attack...' On June 22 1970, Dang Thuy Tram was killed by an American patrol in South Vietnam. She was an idealistic young doctor trying to defend her patients and, discovered amongst her p ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844085705 | ISBN 10: 1844085708
"Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters."(Vera Brittain to her fiance, Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915) Letters from a Lost Generation is a memorable selection of letters ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780860680352 | ISBN 10: 0860680355
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament o ... more
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