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From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalistan essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields , longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (shes never had a female editor) Lamb reports two warsthe bang-bang war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue th

Author

Christina Lamb

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon et Schuster

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501199172

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.8 / 5 (384 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14