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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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Immaculee Ilibagiza
Immaculee Ilibagiza 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. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee ...
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King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Adam Hochschild
First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities.
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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Mark Bowden
This book details the events leading up to one of the most intense battles involving American soldiers since the Vietnam War. In October of 1993, helicopter operators of the U.S. Army Rangers brought 140 soldiers to Mogadishu, Somalia, to find and capture two men associated with a Somali warlord. The mission resulted in a tremendous exchange of ...
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History of Africa, Revised 2nd Edition
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Kevin Shillington
In a single volume, "History of Africa" offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of the continent from earliest times to the present day. Building on the book's established reputation, in this revised 2nd edition, the author draws on the most recent and up-to-date research to convey something of the wealth and depth ...
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Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
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Rick Atkinson
In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.
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The annals of Imperial Rome
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Cornelius Tacitus
Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies ...
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War as I Knew It
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George Patton
First published in 1947, War As I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary American general, incendiary warrior, and unparalleled military tactician of World War II. Drawing on his vivid memories of battle and detailed diaries, Patton dramatically recounts his celebrated Third Army's sweeping campaign across ...
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela
Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid movement, he has been instrumental in moving South Africa toward black-majority rule. Throughout the world he is revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and ...
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West with the Night
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Beryl Markham
In this moving autobiography, Beryl Markham describes growing up in East Africa with her horse-breeder father, who taught her to care for and train the animals for racing. In her 20s, Markham discovered flying, and worked as an airborne deliverer of supplies and mail. In 1936, she became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic ...
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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Caroline Elkins
This account of the horrific treatment of Kikuyu people in a prison-camp system established by the British colonial rulers in 1950's Kenya lays bare a long-suppressed chapter in the history of atrocity. Harvard historian Caroline Elkins researched the extant official documents (many were destroyed in 1963 as the British departed from Kenya). She ...
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No Future Without Forgiveness
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Professor Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu, who has worked rigorously on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has put together his hard-earned thoughts on the nature of forgiveness and reconciliation in this story of South Africa's post-apartheid healing. Without any saccharine formulas, his tempered work maintains humanistic ideals for moving forward.
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Tree Where Man Was Born
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Peter Matthiessen
This book details Matthiessen's travels in East Africa.
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Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon
A three-volume Modern Library edition.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories
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Philip Gourevitch
A history of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which longstanding enmity between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the extremist Hutu majority. Gourevitch contrasts horrific eyewitness accounts told by Rwandans with the muted responses of the rest of the world. He also assesses ...
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
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Professor E A Wallis Budge (Translator)
The collections of charms, formulas, hymns and spells designed to accompany the dead of Ancient Egypt on their journey to the afterlife have always exerted a powerful fascination on modern generations. Written on papyrus, inscribed on the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, or engraved on amulets, these texts with their vignette illustrations give us ...
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
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Helene Cooper (Read by)
A haunting memoir of a war-torn childhood in Liberia, a deeply personal story and an examination of a violent and divided country.
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The conquest of Gaul
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Julius Caesar
Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar's narrative offers insights into his military strategy & paints a fascinating picture of his encounters with the inhabitant of Gaul and Britain, as well as offering lively ...
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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
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Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval
The authors posit that the Sphinx and the other monuments of the necropolis at Giza are actually an analog of the constellations as they appeared in the year 10,500 B.C.E., thus making these structures three times as old as they are commonly believed to be.
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
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Rick Atkinson
In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Illustrations. 18 maps.
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The African Experience: An Introduction
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Vincent Khapoya
Providing an interdisciplinary introduction to Africa, this text covers Africa's physical attributes, history, social structure and culture. It considers the diversity and convergence of African people in the cultural and linguistic patterns and describes the main traditional cultural forms and institutions found in Africa. African history is ...
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The Rise of the Roman Empire
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Obye Polybius, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator), F W Walbank (Introduction by)
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the ...
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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John Carlin
Carlin pens this 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 tournament.
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Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
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Michael Gomez, Martin Klein (Editor)
This book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of the people of Africa, from antiquity to the modern period. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are discussed over a wide expanse of time in ways that link as well as differentiate past and present circumstances. The experiences of Africans in ...
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Understanding Contemporary Africa
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April A Gordon
Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events and trends - including Africa and the war on terror, progress and problems in democratization, advances by women in politics, developments in the fight against AIDS, the growing influence of China, the establishment of the African Union, and much more - this new edition of "Understanding Contemporary ...
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Makers of Rome : nine lives
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Plutarch
These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's "Roman Lives", they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as ...
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