Sue Ryder CHILD OF MY LOVE First Edition Signed Autobiography
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Sue Ryder CHILD OF MY LOVE First Edition Signed Autobiography
First Edition, first print hardback of CHILD OF MY LOVE, by Sue Ryder (Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE). and published by Collins Harvill/ William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., London, in 1986. Signed by Sue Ryder on the front endpaper.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine which has minor fading to edges) with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE (1923 - 2000), best known as Sue Ryder, was a British volunteer with the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, who afterwards led many charitable organisations, notably the charity named in her honour.
She was one of the exceptional figures of the 20th Century, a woman who dedicated her life to the relief of suffering and whose legacy lives on in the work of the organisations she established across Europe and in southern Africa and, together with her husband Leonard Cheshire, across Asia and in Australasia.
Her lifes mission became clear in the aftermath of the Second World War when she worked as a volunteer amongst displaced and stateless refugees on the continent of Europe. The first home opened by Sue Ryder was St Christopher's in Germany, designed as a haven for the people she met in Europe, many of whom were survivors of concentration camps. The first home to be built by Sue Ryder was in Konstancin in Poland, followed by the homes in England.
In the 1950s Lady Ryder worked to establish care services in Poland and Yugoslavia. These were followed by homes in Italy and Ireland during the 1980s; in Albania, in Kosova during the 1990s. From 1985, Lady Ryder also began to work in Africa. Ryder wrote two autobiographies: And the Morrow is Theirs (1975) and Child of My Love (1986)
"This book is the record of the Life and achievements of a remarkable woman: Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, CMG, OBE, better known to the many thousands of men, women and children whose lives she touched simply as Sue Ryder.
Sue Ryder was born in 1923 into a large farm-owning family from Yorkshire. The course of her life was to be determined by two early influences; the example of her much-loved mother's voluntary social work; and by what she herself witnessed of the widespread social misery caused by the Great Depression.
At the beginning of World War II, Sue Ryder left school and volunteered to join Britain's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. She then served with the secret Special Operations Executive, created by Winston Churchill to coordinate Resistance activities in German-occupied Europe. She was attached to the Polish section of the SOE, and what she witnessed from that time to the end of the war left her not only with an enduring love of the Polish people but also with a determination to relieve the suffering of a devastated continent.
In 1953 she formed the Sue Ryder Foundation, to provide homes and care teams for the sick and disabled in any part of the world where there is a clear need and where the opportunity exists. This autobiography is a fitting testament to the compassion and indomitable reserve of its founder."
624 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs.
ISBN: 0 00 272118 X
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