The Cotillion Brigade
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Georgia burns. Sherman’s Yankees are closing in. Will the women of LaGrange run or fight? ...
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Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
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This is The International Bestseller - As Read on BBC Radio 4. Why would you kill your neighbour?...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Burden (2018) in Movies
Aug 4, 2020
Anyway, Burden is a true story about Mike Burden, an active KKK member in the deep south. Having lived a life of hate and anger, he falls in love with a woman who shows him that there are other ways. He denounces his position in the Klan and removes himself from it entirely with the help of a local reverend who happens to be black.
The film makers did a wonderful job of showing the mental and emotional anguish that Burden went through by walking away from the only "family" he ever knew, even though they were heinous, it was still not an easy task.
Garrett Hedlund and Forest Whitaker are both absolutely phenomenal in their respective roles. From what I understand, the film stays pretty true to the actual story that played out in real life.
Though the film is based on events that took place in the 90's from what I can tell, the story told is a relevant today (perhaps moreso) than ever.
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army in Books
Jan 12, 2018
Although some of Craney's characters were fictional(as he states in his notes) they were based on real life people. The hurricane that is referred to at the end of the book where WWI vets were left to fend for themselves is also a true event often called "Hemingway's Hurricane" because of the scathing report he wrote after being one of the first to see it's aftermath.
I think this is a must read book for anyone who wants to learn the truth about American history. Even though it is a fiction story it is purely based on fact and the author really did his research well.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Based on a true story about a Brooklyn bank robbery gone haywire, as a desperate, crazed man and his...
The Boys in the Bank P. F. Kluge John Wojtowicz Sal Naturale
An Improbable Friendship: The Story of Yasser Arafat's Mother-in-Law, the Wife of Israel's Top General and Their 40-Year Mission of Peace
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An Improbable Friendshipis the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-seven, who was Moshe...
Out of Africa (1985)
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The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the...
The Zookeeper's Wife
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Now a major motion picture, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, based on a remarkable true...
ClareR (6230 KP) rated The Sealwoman's Gift in Books
Apr 29, 2019
We follow a Pastors family, Olafur and his wife Asta, as they and their family are kidnapped by corsairs and pirates, and sold off separately to their owners. Olafur is sent back to Denmark to seek a ransom, but he fails. So we follow the life of Asta, how she lives and adapts in the house of Cilleby, and how she copes with the loss of her children and husband.
The Icelandic Sagas are Asta’s Means of escape and comfort, and in telling them she gets Cilleby onside and makes her own life more comfortable. She refuses to give up her Lutheran belief, and believes that she will be reunited with her family - at least in death - because of this.
This was such a touching novel, and the narrator (I listened on Audible) really did the story justice.
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