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Iris Origo: Marchesa Of Val D'orcia.
Caroline Moorehead

David R Godine, 2004

Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who, despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, went on to accomplish great things. In Origo's case, she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of work, biography, autobiography, and literary criticism, that have become recognized as classics of their kind. She was born into a wealthy and long-established Long Island family, the Cuttings, ...

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

6 reviews
Caroline Moorehead

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

Gellhorn Unplugged
Martha Gellhorn did not cooperate with her biographers when she was alive and she did not make it easy for them after she died. She made her opinions on this matter quite clear: "...writers are diminished by having their lives known: they should only be known by what they write." She left many of her manuscripts and some letters and other papers to Boston University before she died, but she ...

Bertrand Russell: A Life
Caroline Moorehead

Viking Adult, 1993

A definitive biography of one of the century's most brilliant and controversial figures uses unpublished letters and papers and new interviews to present a compelling portrait of the passionate, dedicated, and maddeningly inconsistent Nobel Prize-winning philosopher.

Lost and Found: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold that Got Away

8 reviews
Caroline Moorehead

Viking Adult, 1996

Schliemann and His Gold
Caroline Moorehead's Lost and Found (the 9,000 Treasures of Troy, Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away) is basically a biography of Schliemann with a long epilogue tracing the travels of the gold from Troy in the twentienth century, taking in its journeys through Nazi Germany and, ultimately, Soviet Russia. This section of the book is fascinating but the real meat is the story of ...

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

17 reviews
Caroline Moorehead

Holt Paperbacks, 2004

Gellhorn: Lightning Rod for Various Opinions
Martha Gellhorn was a controversial journalist, and as anyone can see, this biography is either loved or hated without a lot of opinion in between.I fall in the love camp.The book is a good job at capturing the subject, warts and all.The author has clearly gone to great lengths to gather information that allowed her to capture the public and private essence of Gellhorn.Moorehead backed up her ...

Bertrand Russell
Caroline Moorehead

Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993

The author suggests that Bertrand Russell was "perhaps our last public sage", a man of extraordinary passion and strength, but full of contradictions. He preached reason and selflessness and believed in free love, yet those closest to him often felt hurt and disillusioned. Far earlier than most, he realized that Bolshevism would lead to dictatorship, but it was America rather than Russia that he saw as a threat to world peace. Possibly the most ...

Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

2 reviews
Caroline Moorehead

Book Sales, 2001

An International Nurse Reviews "Dunant's Dream"
I am named after my aunt, a Red Cross nurse who was an Army nurse in World War II. I am also a nurse (and also a Red Cross nursing volunteer, although I have never worked full time for the organization), and a former officer in the Navy Nurse Corps. My speciality is international health; my work has taken me to some of the poorest and least developed places in the world. I have seen first-hand ...

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

3 reviews
Caroline Moorehead

Picador, 2006

Souls in Exile
This book might prove to be a groundbreaker in the world's understanding of refugees and their struggles. Caroline Moorehead interviewed many refugees who have suffered through a myriad of challenges, with coverage of many different refugee environments as well. Some examples include a shipwreck of boat people off of Sicily, Liberians facing discrimination in Cairo, and the warm welcome but lack ...

Human Cargo
Caroline Moorehead

Vintage Books, 2006

Human smuggling is now said to have an annual turnover of over $7 billion ? more than revenue from smuggling drugs. Caroline Moorehead's important new book looks at 'human cargo' from Afghanistan, Liberia, Palestine and many other places. She has visited war zones, camps, prisons ? and the black Dinka families from the Sudan who were re-settled north of the Arctic Circle in Finland. She follows the fate of 57 young member of the Mandingo tribe, ...

Human Cargo
Caroline Moorehead

St Martins Pr, 2006

Human Cargo: Journeys among the refugees
Caroline Moorehead

Chatto & Windus, 2005

Human smuggling is now said to have an annual turnover of over $7 billion ? more than revenue from smuggling drugs. Caroline Moorehead's important new book looks at 'human cargo' from Afghanistan, Liberia, Palestine and many other places. She has visited war zones, camps, prisons ? and the black Dinka families from the Sudan who were re-settled north of the Arctic Circle in Finland. She follows the fate of 57 young member of the Mandingo tribe, ...

Dunant's Dream War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross
Caroline Moorehead

Harper Collins, 1998

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