Book In Focus: Our Bodies, Their Battlefield — What War Does To Women

Book Review: 'Our Bodies, Their Battlefield' by Christina Lamb is a very disturbing read. But given the state of world today, wars big and small raging around us, ignoring such reads would be escapism

Our Bodies Their Battlefield (inset) by Christina Lamb is a book about women victims of war. ( Image Source :Getty/Amazon )

“We have given our most precious thing and have died inside many times but you won’t find our names engraved on any monument or war memorial.” — Aisha, survivor of rape in the 1971 Bangladesh war.  Our Bodies, Their Battlefield was published in 2020. Since then, in just three years, the world has witnessed two major wars — the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Hamas war. In the preface of the most recent edition, author Christina Lamb writes of