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Beschreibung
In war, everything strips away. What remains surprises you.

Wars are no longer distant. They live on our screens, in our headlines, in cities we once thought safe. We scroll past them-until we can't anymore. But what happens when you step inside those moments? When the dust settles and the people behind the stories are suddenly right in front of you?

He stepped inside. Not to report. To help. Christoph von Toggenburg - humanitarian, adventurer, artist - spent more than a decade on the world's most unforgiving frontlines-from villages reduced to ash in the Central African Republic to Maoist rebel camps in Nepal, the jungles of Colombia, and the divided lands of the Middle East. Through close-up encounters and unfiltered glimpses of life in conflict, he reveals what rarely makes the news: resilience beside fear, kindness amid brutality, and the quiet, stubborn persistence of human warmth.

Surrounded by chaos, Christoph is tested by trauma, by the weight of leadership, and by the question of how much hope one person can carry.

This is not a book about war. It is about the people who endure it-and what they teach us about choosing compassion over fear. Because even in the darkest places on earth, hope is not a feeling. It is a choice.
In war, everything strips away. What remains surprises you.

Wars are no longer distant. They live on our screens, in our headlines, in cities we once thought safe. We scroll past them-until we can't anymore. But what happens when you step inside those moments? When the dust settles and the people behind the stories are suddenly right in front of you?

He stepped inside. Not to report. To help. Christoph von Toggenburg - humanitarian, adventurer, artist - spent more than a decade on the world's most unforgiving frontlines-from villages reduced to ash in the Central African Republic to Maoist rebel camps in Nepal, the jungles of Colombia, and the divided lands of the Middle East. Through close-up encounters and unfiltered glimpses of life in conflict, he reveals what rarely makes the news: resilience beside fear, kindness amid brutality, and the quiet, stubborn persistence of human warmth.

Surrounded by chaos, Christoph is tested by trauma, by the weight of leadership, and by the question of how much hope one person can carry.

This is not a book about war. It is about the people who endure it-and what they teach us about choosing compassion over fear. Because even in the darkest places on earth, hope is not a feeling. It is a choice.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781637778241
ISBN-10: 1637778244
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Toggenburg, Christoph von
Hersteller: Red Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Christoph von Toggenburg
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2026
Gewicht: 0,407 kg
Artikel-ID: 135231919

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