Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures) - True Stories from a War Zone

Faded and creased spine, foxing/yellowing to page edges.

For decades TV has been looking for another, more modern MASH, the comedy series that drew the sting from death and war. Maybe this book is it. In these `True Stories from a War Zone,' it's the early 1990s and three young, good-looking civilians working for the UN and the Red Cross first meet in Cambodia. For a decade, they operate in the bloody theatres of Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti and Liberia. These three voices from the world's front line are personal, these three characters from global ground zero are fallible, their youth and idealism, faults and failures, and triumphs and tears, all work to humanise recent history and bring it home for a reckoning...