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Nahlah Ayed
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A Thousand Farewells
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2012
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6 editions
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The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
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“It had been forty years since Europe began to comprehend just how many of its children had been victims of book-burning authoritarians, of populism gone murderously awry, of blind and violent intolerance; forty years since Canadians, Britons, Americans, and their allies landed in France, many of them never to return.”
― The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
― The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
“Real change does not happen in eighteen days of revolution, as in Egypt's case, or even in a year-long rebellion, as in Syria. It will take years, perhaps decades, and the danger is that it won't happen quickly enough to prevent despair settling back into the hearts of those desperate for renaissance.”
― A Thousand Farewells
― A Thousand Farewells
“This one year also confirmed my long-held belief in the traditional model of foreign correspondence, in the benefit - the necessity - of living in a place, if only for a year or two, in order to really understand it. You cannot fully comprehend the reasons behind an eruption of violence, an uprising, without having understood its root causes. You must know every one of a country's opposing voices to truly reflect the tension between them. You must know something of the people's daily challenge before you could credibly speak to their frustrations.”
― A Thousand Farewells
― A Thousand Farewells
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