GOOD LISTENER by Neil Belton ( 9780571295265 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

GOOD LISTENER
HELEN BAMBER: A LIFE AGAINST CRUELTY

By:

Neil Belton

Format:

Paperback

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£14.00

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ISBN 10:

0571295266

ISBN 13:

9780571295265

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

17 May, 2012

Edition:

Main

Pages:

490

Description:

Helen Bamber went to Belson in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp. She was just twenty. Since then she has been involved with the worst side of the last half-century. In 1985, at the age of sixty, she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture and to bearing witness against the fact of torture. This title tells her story.

Synopsis:

"Essential reading...A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is masterly." (Anthony Storr, "Sunday Times"). Helen Bamber went to Belson in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp. She was just twenty. Since then her life has been involved with the worst side of the last half-century. In 1985, at the age of sixty, she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture and to bearing witness against the fact of torture. This is her story. It is also a haunting unusual narrative of the post-war world. This 2012 edition offers a new introduction by the author. "The story of Bamber's life acts as a framework or prism through which some of the worst events of this century of horrors are addressed." ("Times Literary Supplement"). "[Belton] writes beautifully about an ugly subject...with compassion but also with clarity." ("Scotsman").

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Faber & Faber

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