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Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
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 it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
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 it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
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 ...Show more
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
An intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
‘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 worke ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military history
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 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 fi ...Show more
Sewing Circles of Herat - A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb; Van Dusen (Editor)
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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 A ...Show more
The Africa House : the true story of an Englishman and his African dream (revised edition 2004) by Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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 master piece of biographical storytelling. It is a tale of fantasies made real, tragedy endured and life long love. ...Show more
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