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Christina Lamb
Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern
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Christina Lamb
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Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles
“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”
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Christina Lamb
| August 9, 2022
Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016
It is a vision of hell."">Christina Lamb: "Everything seems to stop and spin.
It is a vision of hell."
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