Caroline Moorehead, Author . Godine $35 (384p) ISBN 978-1-56792-183-0
An affectionate history of the writer and charmer Origo (1902–1988), this biography offers lush descriptions of Italian landscapes and the social intrigues of expatriate life in Florence between the wars. But Moorehead (Bertrand Russell: A...
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Caroline Moorehead, Author . Holt $27.50 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6553-4
HMartha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was a woman of enormous accomplishment. Writer and journalist, she covered the major international conflicts of her lifetime, from the Spanish civil war to Vietnam, managed to land on Omaha Beach shortly after D-Da
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Caroline Moorehead, Author . Holt $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7443-7
The intractable, multifaceted problem of people driven from their homes by poverty, violence or persecution is given a human face in this moving survey of the refugee experience. Moorehead, a human rights journalist, refugee aid worker and...
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Caroline Moorehead, Author Harper $27.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-168441-8
Educated to wait on Marie Antoinette, the marquise Lucie de la Tour du Pin (1770-1853) instead precariously survived a devastating revolution, an emperor, two restorations and a republic. Drawing on Lucie's memoirs and those of her...
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Caroline Moorehead, Author Adler & Adler Publishers $19.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-917561-35-1
Under the term ""pacifist,'' London Times reporter Moorehead (Fortune's Hostages, etc.), gathers those who, out of deeply felt rationality, humanism or religious conviction, have defended peace or challenged the power of the state. Protest movements
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Caroline Moorehead, Author Viking Books $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-670-85008-2
In this brilliant, highly entertaining biography, the most intimate portrait of Russell (1872-1970) to date, Moorehead ( Freya Stark ) gives full play to the contradictory strains of the austere philosopher, passionate romantic, indignant moralist,...
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Caroline Moorehead, Author Viking Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-85679-4
Moorehead's background as biographer (most notably of Bertrand Russell and Freya Stark) and journalist (she's columnist for London's The Independent) may have encouraged her to reach too far in this deeply divided story of Schliemann's treasure, now
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Caroline Moorehead, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $38 (816p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0609-9
Moorehead, a columnist for London's Independent, has written a fluid, character-rich history of the Red Cross, a ""movement which has no equal in size and commitment outside of organized religion."" She ably shows how the Red Cross has struggled to...
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Caroline Moorehead. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-165070-3
In an unfocused account, Moorehead relates the story of 230 women accused of being members of the French Resistance who were sent on one train to Auschwitz in January 1943; fewer than 50 survived the war. In fact, only some of the 230 were involved...
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Caroline Moorehead. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-220247-5
British historian and biographer Moorehead (A Train in Winter) offers an informative, comprehensive, and nuanced account of why and how the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon hid hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Moorehead addresses the...
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Caroline Moorehead. Harper, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-230830-6
Overshadowed by the traumas of the world wars and less cinematic than the Spanish Civil War, the long struggle against fascism in Italy remains obscure and its major figures on both sides unfamiliar. Historian Moorehead (Priam’s Gold) shines light...
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Caroline Moorehead. Harper, $29.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-268635-0
Historian Moorehead (A Bold and Dangerous Family) concludes her Resistance Quartet with an overly dense account of the role Italian partisans, many of them women, played in helping the Allies win WWII. Contending that the story of female resistance...
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