Author Talk: Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefields

From the Politics and Prose Event Page:

In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war  correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in  wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's  never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war  and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At  the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely  interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving  widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from  that of the men involved in battle.

Lamb chronicles extraordinary  tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is  more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of  war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and  Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar,…