· Deborah Scroggins has won six national journalism awards for her reporting from Sudan and the Middle East. For Emma’s War she was awarded the Georgia. Emma's war: Love, betrayal and death in the Sudan by Deborah Scroggins (Harpercollins, £) Reviewed by Lesley McDowell THIS remarkable book by American journalist Deborah Scroggins is a rare beast -- the life story of an individual and the history of a nation that conveys the intimacy of the former and the scope of the latter. · With precision and insight, Deborah Scroggins—who met McCune in Sudan—charts the process by which McCune’s romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africa’s longest-running civil war. Emma’s War is at once a disturbing love story and an up-close look at Sudan: a world where international aid fuels armies as well as the starving population, and where the northern-based Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Emma's war: Love, betrayal and death in the Sudan by Deborah Scroggins (Harpercollins, £) Reviewed by Lesley McDowell THIS remarkable book by American journalist Deborah Scroggins is a rare beast -- the life story of an individual and the history of a nation that conveys the intimacy of the former and the scope of the latter. Emma's War: An aid worker, a warlord, radical Islam, and the politics of oil--a true story of love and death in Sudan Deborah Scroggins out of 5 stars Emma's war by Deborah Scroggins, , Vintage Books edition, in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
"Emma's War" by Deborah Scroggins 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. By Michelle. Deborah Scroggins has won six national journalism awards for her reporting from Sudan and the Middle East. For Emma’s War she was awarded the Georgia. Deborah Scoggins uses the story of Emma McCune, a young Englishwoman who - obsessed with Sudan, its people, and its men, came to marry a Sudanese warlord, to shed light on the forsaken land, and of the people who populate it - not merely the Sudanese themselves, but also, perhaps especially, the Westerners who come to "save" them.
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