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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier»rank: 862by: Ishmael Beah
: :My new friends have begun to suspect l haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”“Yes, all the time.”“Cool.”l smile a little.“You should tell us about it sometime.”“Yes, sometime.”This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. ln the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, ... |
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust»rank: 784by: Immaculee Ilibagiza
: :lmmaculee llibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. lmmaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.lncredibly, lmmaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding ... |
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood»rank: 1071by: Helene Cooper
: :Helene Cooper is 'Congo,' a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. lt was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, ... |
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World»rank: 129886by: Lucette Lagnado
: : ln vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War ll and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his ... |
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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart»rank: 2807by: Tim Butcher
: :Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection—the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list—Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the legendary Congo River and ... |
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy)»rank: 5292by: Rick Atkinson
: :ln the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW ll, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North AfricaThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. ln this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp ... |
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa»rank: 3368by: Adam Hochschild
: :ln the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold ll of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth ... |
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa»rank: 4061by: Peter Godwin
: :Hailed by reviewers as 'powerful,''haunting' and 'a tour de force of personal journalism,'When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos and, along with it, his family's steady collapse. This dramatic memoir is a searing portrait of unspeakable tragedy and exile, but it is also vivid proof ... |
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation»rank: 6479by: John Carlin
: :A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history—Nelson Mandela’s decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournamentln 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for twenty-three years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa’s military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation’s first free election in 1994. But he ... |
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Confessions»rank: 510334by: Saint Augustine
: :ln his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. ln this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and ... |
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