{"product_id":"all-else-failed-the-unlikely-volunteers-at-the-heart-of-the-migrant-aid-crisis-paperback","title":"All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDana Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. As journalists reported horrific mass drownings, an ill-prepared and seemingly indifferent world looked on. Those who reached Europe needed food, clothing, medicine, and shelter, but the international aid system broke down completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Else Failed\u003c\/i\u003e is Dana Sachs's compelling eyewitness account of the successes--and failures--of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous need. Closely following the odysseys of seven individual men and women, and their families, it tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist, novelist, and cofounder of the nonprofit Humanity Now: Direct Refugee Relief, which supports grassroots teams providing aid to displaced people. A former Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of three works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAll Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in March 2023), as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eIf You Lived Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of the Nightingale Palace\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e. Sachs lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766158524704,"sku":"9781954276093","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5efa27ee64c925ae112104c7cb7d0862.webp?v=1780286881","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-else-failed-the-unlikely-volunteers-at-the-heart-of-the-migrant-aid-crisis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}