When the 11th Armoured Brigade of the British Army entered Bergen-Belsen, on the morning of 15 April 1945, they found mounds of unburied corpses and 60,000 survivors – Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Belgians and Russians (most though not all of them Jews) – all reduced to little more than skeletons and covered in lice. Many had TB and typhus. There was no sanitation in the camp and no food. The ground was ankle-deep in faeces. Over the next few weeks, 14,000 – a quarter – of those found alive died; the rest were coaxed back to life.

Jun 2005

Faith and Hope in the United Nations

His Writing Was Love

Witnesses of the Persecution

To the Bitter End

Occupational Hazards

Justice Defined

Farewell to Arms

Glossed in Translation

‘Save Europe Now’

Both Sides of the Lens

Feeding The Beast

Ravenous for her Roots

Waiting For Glory

Place of Terror

Life & Death in the Susa Valley

The Second Sex

Mayhem All Around

The Great Aid Caravan

Fire In the Blood

Against the Dying Light

Soldier, Soldier

Oncle Sam

A Fearful Freedom

The Garden Party

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

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