Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands
- ISBN-10
- 0007256892
- ISBN-13
- 9780007256891
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Christina Lamb
Description
Christina Lamb is one of Britain's most highly regarded journalists. This selection of her work as a correspondent for The Financial Times and The Sunday Times represents non-fiction writing about foreign lands at its finest, by turns edifying, moving and horrifying."
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- 2008-09-04
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