Cause for Our Times: Oxfam - The First 50 Years

by Maggie Black

Book Overview

Oxfam is one of the best-known and most successful charities in Britain. It is also one of the most controversial. This book, published to coincide with Oxfam's 50th anniversary, describes how a small, local, wartime charity evolved into Britain's largest overseas agency, in a period of rapid social and international change. From its initial mission to help starving civilians in Greece during the darkest days of the Second World War, to the recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855981733
• ISBN13: 9780855981730
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxfam
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.