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"Emma’s War Reviews"
Transports of love and hate.
By Natasha Cica.
12 July 2003
The Australian
Emma’s War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan By Deborah Scroggins, HarperCollins, 389pp, $27.95 IT’S not every twentysomething, pearl-wearing English rose who rejects “bourgeois nesting” with stockbrokers to run around war-torn Sudan wrapped in Ethiopian shawls, orchestrating intimate [...]
Continue Reading →Review – Books – A good woman in Africa – The life of a Westerner who married a warlord brings home …
By GERALDINE BEDELL.
9 March 2003
The Observer
A good woman in Africa – The life of a Westerner who married a warlord brings home Sudan’s bloody conflict – Emma’s [...]
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Robin Kirk
Correspondent
22 December 2002
The News & Observer Raleigh, NC
Journalists covering distant wars know that the challenging part of the job is not getting there, but making the stories they find compelling to us back home. This is no simple task, especially when the journalist writes [...]
Continue Reading →Speaking of – Africa – Africa.
21 December 2002
The Economist
Africa is a continent made for – and of – storytellers
“Emma’s War”. By Deborah Scroggins. Pantheon; 389 pages; $25. To be published in Britain by HarperCollins in March 2003″Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”. By Alexandra Fuller. Random House; [...]
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Going Native
Reviewed by Lorraine Adams
10 November 2002
The Washington Post
EMMA’S WAR
By Deborah Scroggins
Pantheon. 389 pp. $25
Ever since Victorian abolitionists and Christian missionaries traveled to Khartoum in the 19th century, the British aid worker, whether liberal do-gooder or conservative God-giver, has sought, many times [...]
Continue Reading →Aid worker drawn into soul of Sudan ; ‘Emma’s War’ is tale of love amid conflict
Stephen Lyons
Special for USA TODAY
17 October 2002
Flamboyant British aid worker Emma McCune favored red miniskirts, risky adventures and African men. The Tall Woman from Small Britain, as she was affectionately called, stood [...]
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When a beautiful, idealistic Western aid worker fell in love with a Sudanese warlord, a terrible tragedy of hunger and violence was set in motion.
“Emma’s War” is a tale of high romance and tragedy that offers an epic view of the kind [...]
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The Tall Woman From Small Britain
By George Packer
1562 words
20 October 2002
The New York Times
While Americans have been thinking about other things, a civil war in Sudan that began in 1983 has killed more than two million people. The conflict between [...]
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