Emma McCuneтАЩs passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her apart from other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlordтАФa man who seemed to embody everything she was working againstтАФand to throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern SudanтАЩs rebel movement.
With precision and insight, Deborah ScrogginsтАФwho met McCune in SudanтАФcharts the process by which McCuneтАЩs romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of AfricaтАЩs longest-running civil war. EmmaтАЩs 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 Islamic governmentтАФbacked by Osama bin LadenтАФis locked in a war with the Christian and pagan south over religion, oil, and slaves.
A timely, revelatory account of the nature of relief work, of the men and women who choose to carry it out, and of one womanтАЩs sacrifice to its ideals.
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