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Lead book review

Rape has always been one of the deadliest weapons of war

Nothing prepared Antony Beevor for this devastating exposé of the systematic use of rape in war and ethnic cleansing

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women Christina Lamb

William Collins, pp.418, £20

I had assumed, after 40 years of researching and writing about war in the 20th century, that I was prepared for just about any horror. But Christina Lamb’s research, into the mass rape of women and young girls in more recent wars and ethnic cleansing shook me to the core.

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