- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Schilt Publishing (19 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 9053306714
- ISBN-13: 978-9053306710
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.1 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 568,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy. It is fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is countless more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me and our children and our parents, if we had the bad luck to be born into the world this book portrays. But Congo has one secret that is hard to pass on if you havent learned it at first hand. Look carefully and you will find it in these pages: a gaiety of spirit and a love of life that, even in the worst of times, leave the pampered Westerner moved and humbled beyond words. (Excerpt from the foreword) Marcus Bleasdale has been following the war in Congo in all its horror and grotesqueness for almost a decade a war which has claimed more than four million victims to date. Seven years ago, Bleasdale published his first book on Congo, One Hundred Years of Darkness, which was immediately voted best photo journalistic book of the year by the American Photo District News.
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Not for browsing at bedtime, this blisteringly honest book shows something of the horrors that can take place when nobody cares. There are hardly any 'good guys' pictured in this book of 'photos noire' - apart from the victims. How the photographer got these shots one can only imagine. For a candid camera eye view of hell get this one.
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