The King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Peter Lewis and Asfa-Wossen Asserate
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Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. A descendant...
Firesigns: A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
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Graphic design has been an academic discipline since the post-World War II era, but it has yet to...
Cobra Pilote: The Ed Hugus Story
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The life story of James Edward (Ed) Hugus, a racing driver and car dealer, with special emphasis on...
Popular Mechanics Man Crafts: Leather Tooling, Fly Tying, Ax Whittling and Other Cool Things to Do
The Editors Of Popular Mechanics
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This is a series of ten pamphlets given to the US army on their return from WW2, reprinted in a...
Venice: Faber Modern Classics
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Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history...
St Paul's Cathedral: Archaeology and History
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This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th century building...
Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
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Breaking the color line with Jackie Robinson Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn...
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
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With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R....
Benny Sadfie recommended A Man Escaped (1956) in Movies (curated)
We follow nine women as they escape from a death march and their journey to try and get to safety. Throughout the recount of the escape, their own stories of who they were before and how they came to be at the concentration camp were told.
The resilience of these nine women throughout everything they enjoyed was inspiring and that they retained their hope and kindness after the disgusting treatment that they endured is nothing short of a miracle.
The story is harrowing, but also one that I feel everyone must know. I thought I knew enough about what happened in those concentration camps in World War II but after reading this I have found that I only knew the tiniest amount of what they endured.
Although I know this is a true story, sometimes I had to remind myself that it was not fiction as some of the passages were so horrific in their descriptions that it is almost unbelievable that a human being can treat another human being like that.
This book will stay with me for a long time, which I am glad of. Thank you to Gwen Strauss and Pigeonhole for allowing me to read this incredible book.


