Man Who Tried to Save the World The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny

Name: Man Who Tried to Save the World The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny
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ISBN: 9780385486668

ISBN-10: 0385486669

ISBN-13: 9780385486668

Edition: 2000

Authors: Scott Anderson

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A swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Fred Cuny spent his life in countries rent by war, famine, and natural disasters, saving many thousands of lives through his innovative and sometimes controversial methods of relief work. Cuny earned his 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, he disappeared in the war-rocked…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.92" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English