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Titanic Express: Searching for my sister's killers
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Description for Titanic Express: Searching for my sister's killers
hardcover. Keywords: Africa. 250pp
On December 28th 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a 27-year-old VSO worker, was killed when her bus, the inauspiciously named Titanic Express, was ambushed in war-torn Burundi. The attackers were members of the Hutu-extremist FNL, a faction linked to those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Twenty others died with Charlotte, including her Burundian fiance. One of the few survivors was given a chilling message for the Burundian government: "We're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do". In "Titanic Express", Charlotte's brother Richard charts his painful struggle to unravel what happened that day, to understand the complex and brutal ... Read more
On December 28th 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a 27-year-old VSO worker, was killed when her bus, the inauspiciously named Titanic Express, was ambushed in war-torn Burundi. The attackers were members of the Hutu-extremist FNL, a faction linked to those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Twenty others died with Charlotte, including her Burundian fiance. One of the few survivors was given a chilling message for the Burundian government: "We're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do". In "Titanic Express", Charlotte's brother Richard charts his painful struggle to unravel what happened that day, to understand the complex and brutal ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
1st Edition
Yes
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
Like New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826485021
SKU
KNW0007034
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Richard Wilson read philosophy at University College London before working in IT for five years. He spent 2003 volunteering for a human rights charity in South East Asia. He lives in London, where he now writes full time, and continues to campaign for his sisters' killers to be brought to justice. This is his first book.
Reviews for Titanic Express: Searching for my sister's killers
"I have watched in growing admiration how, with dogged persistence, Richard Wilson has conducted a singular crusade, not just to bring his sister's murderers to justice, but to understand who they were and why they killed her." Jon Swain, Sunday Times