books about: persecution     books:     Persecution      The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Orlando Figes Metropolitan Books, 2007 A must-read for anyone interested in modern Russian history Over the years I've read many books about Russian and Soviet history, from Roy Medvedev's "Let History Judge"to Montefiore's "Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar," with significant stops along the way for Solzhenitsyn's magisterial polemic "The Gulag Archipelago." Orlando ...             Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus, the Ultimate Jesus Freaks DC Talk and the Voice of the Martyrs Albury Publishers, 1999 Sobering.....Thought-Provoking How far would you go for this Jesus? Do you see Him as a mere story, a fairy-tale, a figment of imagination? Is He up-close and personal....is He not only your God come in human flesh who died for you, but your father....your best friend??? Would you willingly let ...             The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Anne Frank Bantam, 1997 Profound I am probably being redundant when I say this, but this was a profound book. This was a rare look into the life of a Jew living in hiding during Nazi occupation that shaped the worlds understanding of this dreadful persecution. Anne begins as a spoiled and restless ...             Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 Saul Friedlander Harper Perennial, 1998 Great Work from A Great Historian I've taken several seminars at UCLA with Saul Friedlander, and to say that he is an objective and very insightful historian is an understatement. This book is terrific and deserves all the critical praise that it has received. Even if you are just curious about the ...             I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust Livia Bitton-Jackson Simon Pulse, 1999 A First Holocaust Book for the Teen Reader "I Have Lived A Thousand Years" is a personal and gut-wrenching story of how a 13-year old girl survived the German Holocaust in the death camp of Auschwitz. The book is fairly short with short chapters. It is obviously written for adolescent readers, but can ...             Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, 2008 Mr. Baker has drawn back the curtain, again. The loud political noise has hidden the historical evidence for generations, now it is revealed. Thank you, Mr. Baker, for the saddening lessons of doublespeak, doubtless enduring yet still. It takes me weeks to read so much history, I need to process the glimpses ...             Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party Ying Chang Compestine Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2007 Revolution is Not A Dinner Party - Maybe not, but it's a heck of a read for the whole family "Revolution is not a dinner party, . . . A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao Zedong. Ying Chang Compestine's title of her first novel is nothing short of brilliant irony. Ms. Compestine, like her ...             The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ... Lawrence Solomon Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 The Deniers This is an objective and very informative review of salient global warming issues. While the book stands alone on it's own merits, the various specific topics covered are easily verifiable by the interested reader who wants to understand on a deeper level. Each issue ...             Safely Home Randy Alcorn Tyndale House Publishers, 2003 Excellent! Safely Home puts into perspective as to what is important in this life. It is a window that allows the reader to view religious persecution in today's world both here in the U.S. and abroad. Once you begin to read, it will be hard to put the book down.             The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedlander Harper Perennial, 2008 A magnum opus A truly monumental work that simply outpaces many other related literary endeavors appearing over the past 30 years. Reads easily and without the stodgy encumbrances of many history books. A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust.             A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Mariner Books, 2004 A Profound Reflection on our capacity for Reconciation Pumla Gobodo-Madikezela reflects on central human issues such as the nature of individual and social evil, the possibility of social reconciliation, the individual's ability to move from participation in violent evil to remorse, and the capacity to meet one another ...             Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen ... Samuel D. Kassow Indiana University Press, 2007 In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and ...             The Case Against Israel (Counterpunch) Michael Neumann AK Press, 2005 NEUMANN HITS a NERVE, AS THE "TRUTH" USUALLY DOES The overreactions of some of these reviews told me I just had to read this book for myself. It is no surprise that Neumann has hit the bullseye with his book. It feels like FREEDOM of SPEECH, is actually coming back to America - slowly but SURELY! Neumann has written a ...             The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, ... Harvard University Press, 1999 The Black Book of Communism This book should be read by everybody not only to inform but to commemorate the innumerable innocents victims of this terrible system, Also to bring a reality check to some so call educators & historians in my country of origin (France) & everywere.Absolute masterpiece ...             This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics) Tadeusz Borowski Penguin Classics, 1992 A remembrance of things past Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. ...          products you might be interested in search for books civilization, counterpunch, extermination, persecution, revolution, whisperers randomly chosen music: Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music