Child of My Love - Softcover

Ryder Of Warsaw, Sue Ryder

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ISBN 10: 1860463789 ISBN 13: 9781860463785

Publisher: Harvill Pr, 1997

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This is a record of the life and achievements of Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, better known as Sue Ryder. During the war, she served with the highly secret Special Operations Executive, created by Winston Churchill to co-ordinate Resistance activities in German-occupied Europe, attached to the Polish sections of SOE. What she witnessed from that time to the end of the war - especially the selfless, cheerful courage of men embarking on the most hazardous of operations - left her determined to relieve the suffering of a devastated continent. In 1953, she formed the Sue Ryder Foundation, which has grown steadily in size and in the scope of the help it offers to people in need. She intended that it should be "a living memorial to the victims who suffer and die as a result of persecution."

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About the Author:

Sue Ryder was born in 1923. In 1959 she married Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, one of Britain's best-known war heroes and founder of the international Foundation of Homes for the Disabled.

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In her autobiography as in her life, she has placed others first. Her book is a self-effacing memorial to those who have done so much, and a challenge to the rest of us to do more. -- Kathy Watson, The Independent, London

One of the great women of the twentieth century . . . she has a tremendous story to tell. -- Church Times

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