Anne Applebaum
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In ... [... more]
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Shizuye Takashima
When Shizuye Takashima, "Shichan" as she was called, was eleven years old, her entire world changed forever. As a Japanese-Canadian in 1941, she was among thousands of people forced from their homes and sent to live in internment camps in the .. [... more]
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Nicholas Gage
Nicholas Gage is the author of six other books, including the award-winning Eleni. He lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts. In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. [... more]
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Erving Goffman
Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects [... more]
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Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Buczacz, Galicia, at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was incarcerated between 1941 and 1945 in Buchenwald and Mauthausen and other concentration camps. In 1946, together with 30 other ... [... more]
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Stefan Maechler
Stefan Maechler studied history and German literature at the University of Zurich. He lives in Zurich. This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which [... more]
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Jan Beazely
Set during the darkest days of World War II, King's Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country's Jewish population from Hitler's concentration camps. Aware of... click for ... [... more]
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Gloria Jahoda
Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look ... [... more]
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Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination-both physical and emotional-of ... [... more]
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Mini Grey / AUTHOR CATALOG
Mini was born in the front seat of a mini-car in an icy car-park in South Wales. She has two sisters and one brother, and grew up in a village in Buckinghamshire with plenty of places to make camps, climb trees and pretend to be horses. As a ... [... more]
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Jean Genet
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet-petty thief, prostitute, modernist master-spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated ... [... more]
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Kathy Santo
Kathy Santo has trained dogs for both home and competition. She currently sees more than a hundred dogs each week at her obedience school and offers advice to hundreds of owners through her seminars and camps. She lives in New Jersey with her ... [... more]
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