ACTUELLEMENT ÉPUISÉ

Titanic Express: Finding Answers in the Aftermath of Terror by Richard Wilson (Hardcover, 2006)

À propos de ce produit

Product Information

On December 28th 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a 27-year-old VSO worker, was killed when her bus, the inauspiciously named Titanic Express, was ambushed in war-torn Burundi. The attackers were members of the Hutu-extremist FNL, a faction linked to those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Twenty others died with Charlotte, including her Burundian fiance. One of the few survivors was given a chilling message for the Burundian government: We're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do . In Titanic Express , Charlotte's brother Richard charts his painful struggle to unravel what happened that day, to understand the complex and brutal history that lay behind it. Cutting through the obfuscations of the authorities, he uncovers a story of violence, fanaticism and neglect that exposes the self-interest and double standards at the heart of our supposed commitment to human rights and the fight against terror. As the facts begin to emerge, the family's deep personal grief is compounded by the realisation that this murder is just one among thousands, in a war fuelled as much by western cynicism and African greed as by ethnic divisions. Titanic Express is a political detective story, a memoir of grief and a moving portrait of an extraordinary woman who died at the very moment she had found fulfilment. In gripping detail it shows the human reality of lives torn apart by the machinations of war and diplomatic expediency, where competing versions of the truth can be as deadly as bullets and machetes. I have watched in growing admiration how, with dogged persistence, Richard Wilson has conducted a singular crusade, not just to bring his sister's murderers to justice, but to understand who they were and why they killed her. Jon Swain, Sunday Times

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780826485021
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88864322

Product Key Features

Author
Richard Wilson
Publication Name
Titanic Express: Finding Answers in the Aftermath of Terror
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Richard Wilson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

Explorer par catégorie

Titanic Express: Finding Answers in the Aftermath of Terror by Richard Wilson (Hardcover, 2006)

Économiser sur : Adultes, université

Dragon Ball Z Super Carte Jeu de Démarrage Pont Tout Neuf ~SD13 Clan Collusion

Retenant Sur The Troubled Life De Billy Kerr BOARD GAME Marque Neuf sous Blister

Vous aimerez peut-être aussi

Livres de fiction The Walking Dead

Livres de fiction The Walking Dead en français

Livres de fiction The Walking Dead en anglais

Livres de fiction The Walking Dead en poche

Livres de fiction The Walking Dead poche en anglais

Bandes dessinées et romans graphiques américaines the walking dead

À propos de ce produit

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features