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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The tyrant's novel	Thomas Keneally	Thomas Keneally's literary achievements have been inspired by some of history's most intriguing events and characters, but in a rare reversal of time his brilliantly imagined new novel takes us into …	OL103685W
Caught in the act	Peter Dupré	250 p	OL13529270W
Out of Captivity	Marc Gonsalves	On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes — crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they…	OL15177309W
Conversations with Myself	Nelson Mandela,Barack Obama,Rosa Maria Borràs Montané	Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his ent…	OL15398911W
Reeducation in postwar Vietnam	Edward P. Metzner	"When helicopters plucked the last Americans off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1975, countless Vietnamese who had worked with or for the Americans remained behind. Many of these were soon…	OL17655256W
A prisoner in the garden	Nelson Mandela,Carolyn Hamilton,The Nelson Mandela Foundation	In 1977 the South African prison authorities allowed a number of journalists to visit the notorious Robben Island. The intention was to persuade the outside world that the conditions there were not a…	OL1783405W
Goodbye Bafana	Gregory, James	Récit de l'amitié qui lia deux hommes que tout oppose : James Gregory, le geôlier de Mandela, Afrikaner, ardent défenseur de l'apartheid, et Nelson Mandela, Noir, prisonnier politique et leader de l'…	OL17896227W
Nelson Mandela	Richard Tames	Describes the life and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela from his early activities with the African National Congress to his imprisonment and release.	OL1899260W
Nelson Mandela	Libby Hughes	Examines the life and career of the South African civil rights leader and his impact on race relations in his country.	OL1935373W
Kolyma stories	Varlam Shalamov	"Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen year that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first …	OL19753987W
Out of captivity	Marc Gonsalves	Describes how the plane carrying the three American civilian contractors crash-landed in Colombia, their capture by the FARC, the five years that they spent as hostages of the guerrilla group, and th…	OL19870213W
Krutoĭ marshrut	Евгения Соломоновна Гинзбург	A story of a courgeous woman who was a witness to and a victim of Stalin's reign of terror for eighteen years. She spent time is Russia's prisons and labor camps.	OL19942411W
To the tower born	Maxwell, Robin	In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months …	OL1999587W
Red shadow	Paul Dowswell	Russia, 1940. Fifteen year old Misha's life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin's inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the …	OL20983281W
Life and death in Shanghai	Nien Cheng	In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an offic…	OL2139457W
Amnesty International Report 1992	Amnesty International	311 pages : 24 cm	OL2188970W
Nien Cheng	Robin Langley Sommer	A biography of the Chinese woman who, arrested during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, spent more than six years in solitary confinement and, despite severe punishment, refused to indict herself as a…	OL2232647W
Crossing the line	Rosalie G. Riegle	More than sixty-five peacemakers have contributed oral narratives to this compelling history of those who say no to war making in the strongest way possible: by engaging in civil disobedience and pay…	OL22645288W
Svatantratā senānī granthamālā	Phūlacanda Jaina	On the Indian freedom struggle and political biography of freedom fighters and revolutionaries lodged in various jails; covers the period, 1912-1947.	OL2315184W
The lizard cage	Karen Connelly	Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sent…	OL2359365W