The Good Listener - Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty

Informationen zum Autor Neil Belton Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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...

Product details

• Authors: Neil Belton, Belton Neil
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2012
• EAN: 9780571295265
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29526-5
• No. of pages: 490
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social issues & processes, Social welfare and social services, Social and ethical issues, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: historical, political and military