A vivid, funny, and very human account of the author’s travels with her family through war-torn Europe. Are We There Yet? is about sitting on the sofa at home and watching cruise missiles rain down on your father’s head—then eating your baked beans and doing your homework. It’s about being five years old and wondering why Daddy’s boots are covered in mud from a mass grave and who was in it. It’s the story of five kids growing up in the New Europe and trying to work out why in some countries the supermarket shelves are empty and in others they groan with hundreds of different kinds of toilet cleaners.
Rosie Whitehouse worked for the BBC World Service before spending five years as a housewife in the war-torn Balkans married to a correspondent of The Economist. Back in London, she continued developing her ironing skills as she built a new career as a freelance journalist. Rosie has written on parenting and family issues for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and is the author of Take the Kids: South of France (Cadogan Books, 2003). She lives in London with her husband the frontline reporter Tim Judah and their five children.

Are We There Yet?: Travels With My Frontline Family

Whitehouse, Rosie

Travel

Reportage Pr

Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War

In 1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations for the News Chronicle. By the time he returned in August, civil war was raging, and many of those he had seen celebrating lay dead. On this second trip he crossed Spain on his motorbike with his teenage son and described what he saw and heard in this book, which he wrote in just five weeks and was published to critical acclaim in 1937.John Langdon-Davies (1897–1971) was a journalist, war correspondent, and author of over forty books including Dancing Catalans and Air Raid.

History

Langdon-Davies, John

Europe

One woman’s true story of war, love, and loss. Magdalene De Lancey fought to save her husband’s life on the edge of the battlefield at Waterloo. American-born William was one of the first professional officers in the British army and the Duke of Wellington’s chief-of-staff. Magdalene’s heartrending account of her struggle to nurse her husband was written as a letter to her brother and has a striking immediacy. Any woman who has ever waited for a husband at war or nursed the man she loves will empathize with Magdalene’s fears, hopes, and sorrow.

A Week at Waterloo

Biographies & Memoirs

De Lancey, Magdalene

Historical

The slayer needs merely touch a button, and death is on the wing, blindly blotting out the remote, the unknown people.
Reporting the Korean War was not easy, as General Douglas MacArthur was quick to expel those who wrote things he didn't wish to see in print. In Cry Korea, Reginald Thompson tried to set the record straight.
Though no newcomer to war, Thompson was sickened by the carnage caused by America's military might. Cry Korea is not only a powerful piece of reportage, but a cry for us all to examine the all-too-resonant issues of modern conflict and intervention.
A percentage of the proceeds from Cry Korea go to the charity KhandelLight.

Cry Korea: The Korean War: a Reporter's Notebook

Thompson, Reginald

Military

On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila, an Ethiopian, stunned the world when he won the Rome Olympic marathon running barefoot. He was the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics and overnight became a sporting hero, an African hero, and, for many, the first black African they had ever heard of. Bikila was a man of his times—a symbol of hope in the new Africa. Now, for the first time, his true story is told. Central to that tale is the extraordinary life of another man—the Swede Onni Niskanen, Bikila’s trainer, a soldier and an adventurer. Together they took the sporting world by storm. Although feted as a hero on his return to Addis Ababa, the celebrations didn’t last and Bikila was almost killed during Emperor Haile Selassie’s coup shortly after his return. His life spiralled into booze, girls, and cars until finally he was paralyzed in a car crash. The great athlete, however, forged through, and Bikila won a medal in the first Paraplegic Olympics for archery. Tim Judah is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious foreign correspondents. He has traveled extensively in Africa and reported from frontlines across the globe. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans for the The Times (London), The Economist, and The New York Review of Books. Judah is the author of the prize-winning The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, published in 1997, and Kosovo: War and Revenge, published in 2000.

Bikila: Ethiopia's Barefoot Olympian

Judah, Tim

Girard Renaud

Winner of the Montaigne Medal for 2009 “There's little good news, but [Oliver] Poole offers an insightful, sympathetic foreigner’s perspective on America's misadventures in Iraq.”—Kirkus Reviews As the Iraq correspondent for the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, Oliver Poole arrived in Baghdad in 2005. For the next two years his home was a hotel room in the middle of Baghdad’s “Red Zone,” one of the most dangerous places on earth. Poole describes his daily life and how a lively city full of cafés was plunged into an unreported civil war. His own office was destroyed by a suicide bomber. He tells how the war changed his life and that of his interpreter, Ahmed, and his family: pregnant sister-in-law blown up as she is teaching a class of children, brother-in-law kidnapped and murdered, and another brother kidnapped, the family forced to flee. As he travels across Iraq with British and US forces, Oliver Poole witnesses firsthand the impact that war has on the troops. Finally, in November 2006, with the Telegraph closing down his office, Oliver Poole joined the masses escaping Iraq through the Baghdad airport. Fully up-to-date (up to the end of 2007), Red Zone is the most intimate and moving account of the war in Iraq to be published. Oliver Poole first entered Iraq in March 2003 after crossing the Kuwaiti border as the only British daily newspaper reporter “embedded” with the US Army. His account of the invasion, Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (HarperCollins), sold over thirty thousand copies.

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad

Poole, Oliver

Leaders & Notable People

Ninety thousand foreign volunteers fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, but until now their story has never been told. They were an unlikely collection of men and women: American adventurers and British aristocrats, Peruvian poets, Finnish film stars, debout Irish Catholics, White Russians, Romanian fascists, French monarchists, and Moroccan nationalists. Fighting alongside them were fifteen thousand German and seventy thousand Italian soldiers. Using memoirs, interviews, and archives, Christopher Othen paints a picture of a continent on the brink of world war. Christopher Othen studied linguistics, literature, and law and has worked as a journalist, musician, and legal representative for asylum seekers.

Franco's International Brigades: Foreign Volunteers and Fascist Dictators in the Spanish Civil War

Othen.Christopher

"Compelling."—The Scotsman
"Vitaliev has an irrepressible sense of humour."—Guardian
"Never less than compelling. . . . A penetrating analysis of a continent grappling with manifold dilemmas. Vitaliev is, as always, a great travelling companion."—Douglas Kennedy, author of The Pursuit of Happiness 
What does national identity mean? The answer lies not in the usual definitions, but in Europe's forgotten enclaves—tiny fragments of one country cut off and completely surrounded by another. Stuck for centuries between different cultures, currencies, and (at times) languages, each is resplendent with idiosyncrasies. Passport to Enclavia is an homage to Europe's marvellous diversity.
An enclave all of his own, Vitali Vitaliev, a Ukrainian-born Russian Jew with Australian and British citizenships, set out on a personal quest to find out what really defines the European continent, just as a uniform identity—in the guise of the Euro—was being imposed from Brussels, a state he dubs EU-SSR.
Part of the proceeds from Passport to Enclavia go to The Foundation for Endangered Languages, which works to protect and promote endangered languages.
Vitali Vitaliev, the Soviet Union's first investigative journalist, was forced to defect from the USSR by the KGB in 1990. Well-known in the West for his TV and radio appearances, Vitaliev has published nine books in English and has been translated into a number of foreign languages. He has contributed regularly to national and international newspapers such as the Guardian, The European, The Daily Telegraph, and The Australian, and he has made several TV documentaries.

Passport to Enclavia: Travels in Search of a European Identity

VITALIEV, Vitali

Travel Writing

The Golitsyns were one of Russia's most powerful families until the revolution turned their world upside down and life became a battle for survival. Like Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Golitsyn weaves a family saga—of love and happiness, terror and endurance—while also drawing a panoramic picture of a world that was about to be destroyed.
In 1917, Golitsyn was just eight years old, his head full of stories about knights in shining armor, but the reality was a bowl of gruel for supper and panic when there was a knock at the door. He longed to be a writer, but in fear of his life he fled Moscow to work on remote construction sites deep in Siberia before fighting with the Red Army across Europe to Berlin. Written in secret, his memoirs paint a rich and colouful picture of life in Stalin's Russia.
The publication of Memoirs of a Survivor in English is of historic and political significance. It sold one hundred thousand copies when published in Russia in 1990. It is unlikely that it would be published there today, as history is being re-written and Stalin's crimes whitewashed.
Part of the proceeds from the sale of Memoirs of a Survivor will be donated to the Bogoroditsk Museum—the former Bobrinsky estate where the translator's grandmother invited the Golitsyn family to take refuge in 1918.
Sergei Golitsyn (1909–90) eventually wrote stories for children. Memoirs is a family story to the end.
Nicholas Witter, the translator, is Sergei Golitsyn's cousin.

Memoirs of a Survivor

Golitsyn, Sergei

"My Stolen Rwanda should be required reading for every diplomat, journalist, aid worker and UN official dealing with Africa."Adam LeBor, author of Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern GenocideThe eyes of your assassin. They stay in your mind's eye until death.For thirteen days in April 1994, Révérien Rurangwa hid in silence with his family in a tiny cabin on the side of a mountain until they were finally hunted down by their Hutu neighbors—men with whom his father had often drunk a beer after work. In minutes, forty-three members of his family were massacred in front of his eyes. Although part of his hand was cut off, Rurangwa managed to escape before the assassins set fire to the building.Rurangwa was fifteen and alone in the world; his only souvenir of his childhood was a battered family photograph. He tried to return to his home but was once again forced to flee in fear of his life. In this extraordinary memoir of survival, Rurangwa recounts how he struggled to come to terms with extreme loss, physical deformity, and a life in exile.Published to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide, My Stolen Rwanda is tender and intimate. Rurangwa's story jumps from the pages with energy and even humor.Part of the proceeds from the sale of My Stolen Rwanda will go to Ibuka—Memory and Justice, which supports victims of the genocide. Rurangwa is the charity's vice president.

Genocide: My Stolen Rwanda

Révérien Rurangwa

Memoirs

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