'Love in a Torn Land' is Jean Sasson's biography of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain's journey with her husband and child from war torn Kurdistan to England.
It is an extraordinary story wonderfully told by a writer with a gift for writing the experiences of other people. She makes us feel every step of the way the incredible danger Joanna and her family were in. We cannot forget that Saddam Hussain appeared to be on a mission to annihilate just about every Kurd in sight, by what ever means possible which is why this story is so amazing that people survived to tell the tale.
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