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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"With this memoir by a 'simple monk' who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen -- just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of "reform" that would eventually affect all of...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell's frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the triumph of friendship and courage is as riveting as it is illuminating.
The story begins in 2007, when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria, following...
31) Repentance
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
Two moments in time, twenty years apart, one last chance at redemption. What would you do with a second chance? 1981. Argentina is in the grip of a brutal military dictatorship. Inspector Joaquín Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive regime: desperate people, terrified people and--worst of all--missing people. Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, enjoying a simple life...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
A one hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony of Siberia chronicles how more than a million criminals, revolutionaries, and activists were exiled into what became a brutal colony...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal World is the second of two volumes (the first, Kolyma Stories, was published...
34) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating memoir, the anti-apartheid activist recounts his lifelong fight for emancipation and the years he endured in a South African prison. From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused were Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow...
37) Midnight rainbow
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A romance in the jungle - Grant Sullivan, tough, masculine and handsome, is a retired military expert entrusted with a mission in the Costa Rican jungle - to find hostage and socialite Jane Hamilton Greer. When Grant rescues her in a rather cavalier and physical fashion, no love is lost between them. But gradually their mutual attraction and passion becomes apparent and the jungle smolders in more ways than one.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life of Lady Jane Gray's younger sister, Katherine, interweaves the tragic story of her imprisonment in the Tower of London with the fates of three other innocent political prisoners including Kate Plantagenet and boy princes Edward and Richard.
39) The forever prisoner: the full and searing account of the CIA's most controversial covert program
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized to use brutal interrogation techniques that would have...
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 631
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalins Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a...
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