“All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army.”

Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author, best known for her reporting on what war does to women. She is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times, where she has covered everything from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria to repression and human rights abuses in Eritrea and Zimbabwe.

She has written ten books including Our Bodies, Their Battlefield and I Am Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai, which was named Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards 2013.

"...will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.” Amal Clooney on Our Bodies, Their Battlefield


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