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Scott Anderson

The Man Who Tried to Save the World

The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of an American Hero

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A swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a ladies' man, and a renegade, Fred Cuny spent his life in countries rent by war, famine, and earthquake, saving many thousands of lives with his innovative and often controversial methods of relief work. Cuny earned the nickname Master of Disaster for his exploits in Kurdistan, Somalia, and Bosnia. But when he arrived in the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya in the spring of 1995, raring to go and eager to put his ample funds from George Soros to good use, he found himself in the midst of an unimaginably savage war of independence unlike any he had ever before encountered. Shortly thereafter, h… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-385-48666-8
  • EAN: 9780385486668
  • Produktnummer: 9324434
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.3 cm x D2.2 cm 372 g
  • Gewicht: 372

Über den Autor


SCOTT ANDERSON is a renowned war reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and other national publications. He is the author of the novels Triage and The 4 O'Clock Murders, and coauthor of War Zones with his brother, Jon Lee Anderson. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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