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Drawing on first-hand reporting from hot war zones around the world - Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Kosovo, Sudan and, most recently, Afghanistan - David Rieff shows us what humanitarian aid workers do in the field and the growing gap between their noble ambitions and their actual capabilities for alleviating suffering.

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In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.