The Good Listener: Helen Bamber

Helen Bamber went to Belsen in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp. She was just twenty. Since then her life has been devoted to working with people who have suffered the most appalling physical and psychological damage at the hands of others. From survivors of the holocaust and of the Burma railroad, through the victims of South African, Argentinian, Iraqi, Iranian and Israeli regimes, she has worked to heal those who have suffered at the hands of political and military torturers.

Neil Belton uses her story as the basis to examine the resurrection of torture as an instrument of political power in our century and recounts the experiences of sufferers in a book that is a powerful and harrowing examination of the darkest sides of humanity. 'The Good Listener' is not only Helen Bamber's story. It is also a hauntingly unusual narrative of the post-war world.