- Editorial:
- HARPER COLLINS
- Materia
- Science/social sciences
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-830001-2
OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELD
LAMB, CHRISTINA
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020
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.
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.