"War and Humanity" traces the history of the largest humanitarian organization in the world - ICRC - through its remarkable photographic archive. These iconic images show what can be achieved when aid to the suffering is given without discrimination.[...]

Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. Like Saint-Simo[...]

From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the fascinating story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II.High up in the mountains of the southern Massif Central in France lie tiny, remote villages united by a long and par[...]

Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? This work celebrates the courage and will to survive shown by ordinary human beings.[...]

A portrait of the lives of today's refugees cites an alarming percentage of the world's population that has been forced to abandon home and family in order to survive, sharing the personal stories of people struggling to make lives for themselves in such areas as Cairo, Lebanon, and Australia. By th[...]

Born in Paris in 1893, the wandering life of Freya Stark's childhood left her 'precocious and pretty tough'. Self-disciplined, courageous yet flamboyant and unorthodox, she became a great explorer, a travel writer, geographer, historian and archaeologist. Freya Stark remained fearlessly independent [...]

"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 w[...]