- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday; Airports / Export Ed edition (4 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385608969
- ISBN-13: 978-0385608961
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'Heartbreaking...Reading this inspirational autobiography is a humbling experience'.
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'She was forced to choose who would receive assistance and who would die...A harrowing, emotionally charged account.'
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fascinating book that starts with the author's experiences of working in the feeding stations of Ethiopia during the 1980s famine. The choices she had to make in deciding who to take in from the overwhelming mass of starving people proved almost unbearable. Her interview with Michael Buerk for BBC news brought the situation to the world's attention and led to Bob Geldof's fund raising concerts.
She continued to work in a number of conflict zones with the International Red Cross and her work in Afghanistan proved particularly harrowing and dangerous. The intriguing aspect of the book is understanding what motivated and sustained her. There is undoubtedly a spritual search amongst the pages of the book and this ends in an intriguing way.
Highly recommended and deserves to be on the Bestseller lists.
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It is not often that one reads a book that is so true to its title! As Michael Buerk of the BBC said on the back cover of the book, Claire Bertschinger was "an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things and really did move mountains". For once here is a book where the hype was amply justified! No reader could fail to be moved by her courage, convictions and commitment. I was looking for an autobiography that highlighted just such attributes. I was not disappointed!
Forbes Watson - Plymouth
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