The common factor when there's a war is that Adie's there. In the interests of world peace the UN should lock her up.
Entertaining, though guarded, memoirs of a courageous trouper who has seen a deal of suffering. Starts with Kate's happy childhood in bomb-damaged Sunderland where she encountered violence by Pixies at Brownies.
Sound training for the journalistic frontline. (Flak flies in the newsroom when the Editor spots a spelling howla, I can tell you.)
Ed Perkins
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