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Still Counting The Dead (2012)

by Frances Harrison(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1770893040 (ISBN13: 9781770893047)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Anansi International

review 1: "It was a world in which death was so omnipresent that few expected to walk out alive."Harrison manages to take the experiences of a handful and turn them into the voices of the hundreds of thousands of civilians caught between two ruthless factions determined to fight until the end. These civilians were failed by those who claimed to be fighting for them, their country, and by the international community as a whole.Especially frustrating is the fact that even today, civilians continue to suffer and die needlessly in Syria, South Sudan, and elsewhere.An absolutely devastating and utterly painful read--I can't even begin to imagine the trauma and unspeakable horror of those who have actually lived those last few months.All I can say is, while I never want to read this book ... moreagain, it's a must-read and will always have a place on my shelf.
review 2: I'm not really much of a non-fiction reader, usually choosing a book for an escape, but planning a trip to Sri Lanka later in the year meant that I picked up some recommended Roma Tearne novels, which led finding myself hungry for information about this terrible war that had so little documentation in the mainstream over here in the comfort of the UK. I found this book shocking, upsetting, very well written and compulsive reading. A must read I think for anyone planning a trip over there, I find it important to understand, or at least to try to understand somewhere that you're going to visit, and understand it in a way that goes beyond knowing how to ask for a beer! Reading this has made me determined to spend time with people during my visit, and also made me search out yet more information. less

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