Author: S. W. Harman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803223622
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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History of Judge Ike Parker and his Fort Smith tribunal.

Author: Alfréd Wetzler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met. “Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews.... No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them.”—Sir Martin Gilbert Together with another young Slovak Jew Rudolf Vrba, both deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war, but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence – a ground plan of the camp, constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Cyclone gas. The book is cast in the form of a novel to allow information not personally collected by the two fugitives but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends, to be included. Nothing, however, has been invented. From the Introduction by Dr. Robert Rozett Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to Slovakia. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. [...] Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humans.

Author: Dumitru Sandru
Publisher: Chivileri Publishing
ISBN: 0983669562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Life under communism is cruel and inhumane. Commit the smallest political infraction, and the secret police will arrest you. The only ray of hope is the West, but getting out from communism is difficult. Communist countries have a “Berlin Wall” around them. It is a crime to escape by crossing the border illegally, and anyone caught is beaten and imprisoned, sometimes even shot. I was eighteen, and I was living in hell. However, I would rather have died than keep living as a communist slave. This is my story of what happened and how I reached freedom.

Author: Kon Pierkarski
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554881560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value. During World War II, Kon Piekarski was a member of the Polish Underground Army, a clandestine resistance movement which operated even inside Auschwitz – organizing spectacular escapes, operating a secret radio network and matching wits with the Gestapo. After Auschwitz, Piekarski became a prisoner of war at Buchenwald and spent time working in a factory where Russian prisoners of war were used for labour. In the face of constant danger, he and his comrades took every possible opportunity to sabotage the German war industry. He was finally transferred to a small camp near the French border, and escaped three months before the end of the war.

Author: Francisco Nieto
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796038512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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This is a fictional story of the end of civilization as we know it. Hell’s Fury Unleashed chronicles the story of five boys caught up in the struggle for survival as they elude catastrophic events. Follow their struggle for survival in a world they once knew and felt safe and secure into an unknown world of devastation, chaos, havoc, and confusion.

Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.

Author: Roy Masters
Publisher: FHU Bookstore
ISBN: 0933900031
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Ralph Brownrig (bp. of Exeter)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Steven L. Peck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983748441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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A damned man struggles to find meaning in a library, the dimensions of which are measured in light years.

Author: Calum Wang
Publisher: ANDJARINA Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0987447807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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The Satyrs’ Reign is a truly unique book. There is nothing like it. It provides an explanation of all creation, evolution, sentient life, the soul, spiritual connections, God, Heaven, Hell, Angels and Alien Life as well. It details how to commune with your soul, how to survive in the afterlife, how to fight, flee and – unfortunately – live with the fate of being punished by greater beings that rule the meta-physical afterlife. We soon learn that a sentient life after physical death is gained by communion with our soul and that this ‘afterlife’ is no paradise for any soul – ours or aliens. Our author (who was possessed by an astral spirit, a warrior-soul known as Calum Wang) explains how so-called ‘Angels’ exist and why they are ruthlessly against any soul that has any memory embedded within it. Your soul – that goes on with the likeness of you – will be hunted down by Angels or Demons and it makes no difference which because they are both utterly determined to destroy all souls that are sentient. It is a tense struggle that continues across time and space. Calum Wang tells our author how he defies ‘The Saraph’, the great Arch-Angels that totally control the meta-physical repository’s we would know as Heaven and Hell. We also learn that our souls in Hell have been enslaved and used as grotesque and violent hell-spawn against other sentient life-forms as well. The Satyrs’ Reign provides detail of one alien life form in particular that has fought ‘us’ as hell-spawn. You will find a thought-provoking passage on almost every page – so it can be a very challenging read that should be consumed with a pause after each chapter. To say ‘Your Soul Will Never Be The Same’ after reading this book – is true. It challenges our society and who we really are, to the very core; and it wins. The real message is embedded in its purpose and truth – not the superfluous facts or misleading detail. The way I see myself, other people and the society that surrounds me now has indeed changed; after reading The Satyrs’ Reign. I am not an atheist or a believer anymore and my journey is now my own.