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1	Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist The writer Iris Origo (1902-1988), a friend of Edith Wharton and Somerset Maugham who was equally at home in the cities of Italy and England, is profiled here by the biographer of Bertrand Russell. Origo's colorful memoir, WAR IN VAL D'ORCIA, about life on her Italian husband's estate in the mountains of Tuscany during World War II, is a classic ... see all copies from £5.88! new only from £8.66! \| first editions
2	Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.98! new only from £1.98! \| first editions
3	Dunant's dream : war, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist The International Red Cross was the inspiration - the dream - of Henri Dunant, a 31-year-old businessman appalled by the butchery and lack of medical care for injured soldiers during the battle of Solferino in 1859. With Gustave Moynier, another Swiss, Dunant set out to create an international organization which was not only to alter irrevocably, ... see all copies from £1.43! new only from £16.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist Martha Gellhorn (1980-1998) was one of Ernest Hemingway's many wives. She was also a distinguished and fearless journalist who covered, up close, some of the worst moments of World War II and went on to a brilliant career as a left-wing commentator on America's foreign policy through most of the 20th century. This biography covers her turbulent ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Freya Stark more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist The autobiography of the independent and unorthodox woman whose expeditions to Persia and the Hadhramaut during the 1930s established her reputation as a traveler, writer, geographer, and archaeologist. see all copies from £1.24! signed copies \| first editions
6	Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist Moorehead's compelling biography offers the captivating true story of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, an utterly remarkable yet little-known woman who was observer, commentator, and participant in the major social upheavals of late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe. b&w photo insert. see all copies from £13.00! new only from £13.00! \| first editions
7	Lost and Found: 8heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist A sympathetic biography of the discoverer of the ruin of ancient Troy and an investigation into the historical fate of the valuable artifacts he uncovered. see all copies from £5.80! new only from £44.96! \| first editions
8	Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn more books like this by Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (Editor) add to wishlist From the acclaimed biographer of Martha Gellhorn, one of the 20th century's most prolific reporters, comes this collection of Gellhorn's letters that introduces the woman behind the correspondent--a writer of wit, charm, and vulnerability. The result is an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the most accomplished women of modern times. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
9	Troublesome People: The Warriors of Pacifism more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £12.38! \| first editions
10	Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn more books like this by Caroline Moorehead (Editor) add to wishlist "A literary landmark. Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form."--Francine du Plessix Gray, "The New York Times Book Review" Martha Gellhorn's reporting career brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the end of the cold war. While Gellhorn's wartime dispatches rank ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.08! \| first editions
11	Lost treasures of Troy more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist In spring 1945, the Red Army entered Berlin. Not far from the Reichs Chancellery was the Berlin Zoo with an anti-aircraft tower. Inside were crates containing Heinrich Schliemann's famed collection of gold from the lost city of Troy, King Priam's riches - gold diadems with leaf and flower pendants, gold bottles, gold earrings and 9000 gold rings ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £50.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Bertrand Russell: 2a Life more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist The definitive biography of the controversial Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician, anti-war activist, and "free love" advocate. Moorehead makes use of unpublished letters and papers and many new interviews to fashion an incisive biography of this contradictory man. Photos. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £32.19! \| first editions
13	Betrayal : child exploitation in today's world more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.21! \| first editions
14	Martha Gellhorn: A Life more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist Martha Gellhorn's reporting tracks many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: witnessing the Depression in a state of righteous fury, risking her life in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Second World War covering the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy Landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremberg Trials. She reported from Vietnam ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £16.12! \| first editions
15	Bertrand Russell: A Life more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! first editions
16 view cover	Lost and Found: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist A sympathetic biography of the discoverer of the ruin of ancient Troy and an investigation into the historical fate of the valuable artifacts he uncovered. see all copies from £5.76! new only from £10.39! \| first editions
17 view cover	Martha Gellhorn Biography by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist This is a magnificent new biography of Martha Gellhorn, whose fearless reporting from the front made her a legend, and whose private life was often messy and volcanic. Ernes Hemingway sent her a telegram: 'Are you a war correspondent or my wife in bed?' She shook herself free of him, and chose to go adventuring. Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks ... see all copies from £3.93! new only from £7.64! \| first editions
18 view cover	Letters of Martha Gellhorn more books like this by Caroline Moorehead (Editor) add to wishlist Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all war correspondents, and her career tracked many of the flash points of the twentieth century: the Depression in the American south in the 1930s; the Spanish Civil War; the Second World War in Europe; the D-Day landings and the Vietnam War. She lived with Ernest Hemingway on and off for eight ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
19	Betrayal more books like this by Caroline Moorehead, Audrey Hepburn (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from £3.03! new only from £43.50! \| first editions
20	Hostages to Fortune more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! first editions
21 view cover	Human Cargo more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist "Human Cargo" is a remarkable oral testament. Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps and prisons from Guinea and Afghanistan to Texas and Italy, and has interviewed emigration officials and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva while investigating the fates of the 17 million people currently displaced from ... see all copies from £4.99! new only from £12.19! \| first editions
22	Fortune's hostages : a study of kidnapping in the world today more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from £2.94! first editions
23	Sidney Bernstein : a biography more books like this by Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from £2.44! first editions
24	Over the rim of the world : selected letters more books like this by Freya Stark, Caroline Moorehead add to wishlist This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels. She became a traveller when she was not quite four. She soon developed a taste for it and journeyed through the Near East and on her own through Persia as no European woman had ... see all copies from £13.24! first editions
25 view cover	The Weather in Africa: Three Novellas more books like this by Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (Afterword by) add to wishlist Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures in the great to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in ... see all copies from £7.97! new only from £27.22!

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