Caroline Moorehead

A new breed of heroes

issue 15 November 2003

  • Another Day in Paradise

    Carol Bergman, with a foreword by John le Carré

    Earthscan, pp. 256

When aid workers, battling in distant places to bring some kind of comfort and safety to displaced and miserable people, are asked why they do what they do, many reply that it all comes down to the immediate and very simple satisfaction of giving a hungry person something to eat.

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