Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does To Women

It's the world's most neglected war crime. In today's warfare rape is increasingly used as a weapon to humiliate, oppress, seize territory and carry out ethnic cleansing, yet almost nobody is brought to justice. This is the first book to bring together the history of war rape with contemporary stories from women in twelve countries - from Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram fighters to be 'bush wives' to Argentinian women forced to have sex with military captors to Rohingya women tied to banana trees and gang-raped by Burmese soldiers, and grandmothers in the Philippines still trying to get justice seventy-five years after they were taken as 'comfort women' by Japanese soldiers. As one sixteemyear-old Yazidi girl puts it, 'no one should be able to say they didn't know'.