Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: Breaking the silence on rape as a weapon of war
As a foreign correspondent, Christina Lamb has highlighted the personal sufferings of individuals caught up in conflicts around the world. In her new book, she focuses on how rape is used as a deliberate strategy to humiliate women and devastate their communities
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
By Christina Lamb
William Collins
There is something Christina Lamb once said in a documentary that tells you all you need to know about why her journalism is award-winning. She appeared online in a short 2015 video called Bringing the World to Britain to talk about her work as a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times.
As she unpacked the contents of her “war bag”, ...