Emma’s War

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Emma McCune’s passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her excluding other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But nobody was once prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord—a man who looked as if it would embody the whole lot she was once working against—and to throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern Sudan’s riot movement.

With precision and insight, Deborah Scroggins—who met McCune in Sudan—charts the process by which McCune’s romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africa’s longest-running civil war. Emma’s War is at once a disturbing love story and an up-close have a look at Sudan: a world where international aid fuels armies in addition to the starving population, and where the northern-based Islamic government—backed by Osama bin Laden—is locked in a war with the Christian and pagan south over religion, oil, and slaves.

A timely, revelatory account of the nature of relief work, of the women and men who select to carry it out, and of one woman’s sacrifice to its ideals.

From the Hardcover edition.
Emma McCune’s passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her excluding other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But nobody was once prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord—a man who looked as if it would embody the whole lot she was once working against—and to throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern Sudan’s riot movement.

With precision and insight, Deborah Scroggins—who met McCune in Sudan—charts the process by which McCune’s romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africa’s longest-running civil war. Emma’s War is at once a disturbing love story and an up-close have a look at Sudan: a world where international aid fuels armies in addition to the starving population, and where the northern-based Islamic government—backed by Osama bin Laden—is locked in a war with the Christian and pagan south over religion, oil, and slaves.

A timely, revelatory account of the nature of relief work, of the women and men who select to carry it out, and of one woman’s sacrifice to its ideals.

From the Hardcover edition.

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