With Friends Like These
Imagine receiving a phone call from the Nazis: You may deliver aid to the concentration camps, but the camp management will decide how much goes to the staff and how much to the prisoners. What do you do? Linda Polman starts her book with a bang with this dilemma. It is the question that humanitarian organizations wrestle with, whether to remain neutral or to withdraw if wrongful use is made of their assistance, especially now that the majority of today’s war victims are civilians.
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Original title
De crisiskaravaan
Author
Linda Polman
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This book recalls the reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski and the black humour of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene’s fiction.
The Guardian
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A testament to the limits of human suffering and of attempts to rescue some humanity.
Times Literary Supplement
Linda Polman
Linda Polman (b. 1960) is an investigative journalist based in Amsterdam. She has worked in various war zones and developing countries such as Somalia, Rwanda, Haïti, Sierra Leone, Congo and Afghanistan.