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Zalzala is the prize-winning frontline account of the 2005 South East Asia Earthquake by best selling author John Lane. The book charts six months of rescue and aid efforts in the foothills of the Himalayas in the aftermath of the disaster that left over three million people homeless.

This book recounts the efforts made to help the victims in the immediate wake of the tragedy and to ensure their survival through the ensuing winter and thereafter. It also relates what had been achieved on the long road to the ‘restoration of normality’ some three years after the disaster. This book will serve to inform professionals in the field of humanitarian aid concerning effective post-disaster responses during the relief, rehabilitation and recuperation phases, highlighting some of the pitfalls to be avoided.

On 8th October 2005 there occurred in Northern Pakistan a movement of the earth’s tectonic plates so devastatingly cataclysmic that entire mountain sides crashed to the floors of valleys, giant fissures opened to swallow and entomb farmers and their flocks, a generation of children was crushed to death under the roofs of their ill-constructed schools, entire villages and towns crumbled to rubble and a myriad souls perished in the debris. This is a valuable historical record of what followed, at both micro and macro-levels, seen through the eyes of but one of the thousands of aid workers and volunteers who worked in the affected region – the towns of Mansehra and Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Batagram and Balakot, the valleys of Kaghan, Neelum and Alai, of Siran, Swat and Jhelum. Here is a unique window on the suffering endured by the survivors and a tale of the immense courage of afflicted people whose hugely blighted lives could never again be the same.

About the Author: John Lane lives in London and Iquitos, Peru – www.johnlanebooks.com . He spent 35 years serving worldwide with the Royal Navy in frigates, destroyers, and in the Commando Carrier HMS ALBION. He saw operational service in the Malayan Emergency, Aden and North Borneo. He commanded naval establishments in Oman and Gibraltar, and also served in Malta, Libya and Canada, and onboard the Royal Yacht BRITANNIA. After leaving the Navy he served as Senior Hospital Manager in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, and has worked for the Ryder Cheshire Foundation in Western Tanzania, and with Christian Solidarity International in Eritrea and Nagorno Karabagh. Appointments with the International Red Cross, the European Commission, British Executive Service Overseas and VSO have included post-earthquake Armenia, Croatia during the Balkans War, post-genocide Goma, Somaliland, Belize, Bangladesh, Peru, Tanzania and Ethiopia. In 1991/92 he was head of mission for the HALO Trust in Afghanistan; he was awarded the OBE in 1985. John Lane first visited Pakistan (Karachi) in 1958, returning in 1982 with a military delegation from Oman visiting Islamabad and North West Frontier Province. His subsequent work in Afghanistan entailed frequent visits to Pakistan, travelling overland from Kabul through Jalalabad and the Khyber Pass to Peshawar, and onwards to Islamabad.

Awards: In the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust 2011 Writing Awards this book received First Prize for excellence and accomplishment in the Community Grand Award competition.