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North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. Here, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
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Known to millions all over the world as the best-selling author of books about visitors from outer space, Erich von Däniken, the man, is an enigma. What are we to make of someone who is, at the same time, a writer and thinker whose daring ideas have been desseminated in millions of books and a man who has been convicted of fraud and embezzlement? In this biography of von Däniken, by his friend Peter Krassa, the author of Chariots Of The Gods? is revealed as an extraordinary, larger than life character. Däniken gives us his own account of what really happened in the miscarriage of justice that led to his arrest and imprisonment. Krassa paints a vivid picture of this seeker after gods, who has travelled from India to the jungles of South America in his search for proof of his theories of 'astronaut gods' who visited Earth in the distant past. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Endgame: David Rohde
$18.00Described as the most vivid and comprehensive account written of the fall and massacre of Srebrenica, cynical power politics and the inefficiencies of the U.N. Peacekeeping Command in the former Yugoslavia. Rohde was the first reporter to find mass graves near Srebrenica and recieved the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his stories on the atrocities.
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Here is the story of seven years of patrolling by one of the Australian Inland Mission padres and his wife. Their only home was the vehicle in which they travelled and their parish was the northern third of Queensland - the then-forgotten 'top-end' of Australia. Written with humour, warmth and a very human fellow-feeling together with a love for her country and the end result is a story with plenty of information and interest regarding the Australian Inland Mission and its work.
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Without doubt, Sir Elton John is the most successful singer/songwriter, pianist and entertainer rolled into one. The ultimate rock superstar, he has enjoyed the highs and lows of success and excess in equal measure. Renowned for an extravagant lifestyle, unstinting generosity and the occasional 'moment', he is a friend to the stars and royalty alike. This is an exploration of his life and work, from his childhood and schooldays and his early days with the band Bluesology through to his current top celebrity status. Not without controversy, Elton has ed a complicated life under the media spotlight - drug and alcohol addictions, a marriage which ended in less than five years and he was plagued by tabloid-inspired gay-sex allegations. yet he recovered from these personal crises and founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation which has raised more than £20 million for AIDS victims and research. Illustrated with 16 pages of colour photographs.
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Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen on June 2, 1953 and the world watched as she dedicated herself to her country. Drawing on his own experience with the Royal family, together with meticulous research and rare archive material, Titchmarsh tells the story of a young woman thrust into the limelight and how sixty glorious years have revealed her dignity, wisdom and unrivalled devotion to her people. With black and white and colour photographs.
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The Edwardian period was a great age for English fiction. Many classic novels were first published then - Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Lost World; E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howard's End; Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo; for children, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess and Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So Stories; the first of Galsworthy's Forsyte novels, The Man of Property; Erskine Childers's great spy story The Riddle of the Sands; Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger, Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. But alongside these there was a wealth of other writing, much of it forgotten or half-forgotten, some of it unjustly neglected, and all of it important to the literary context in which the enduringly popular works were produced. This Companion examines the broad sweep of fiction-writing from 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War - a time when novels in Britain were produced more cheaply, and read more widely, than ever before. There's over 800 author-entries as well as articles on individual books, literary periodicals and general topics. With the new century came fiction from new sources, which explored new subjects and was read by new audiences. An unprecedented number of women began to publish - they represent nearly half the author-entries here - though many of them chose to do so under noms de plume. Genres such as spy stories, Ruritanian romance and detective fiction were invented or suddenly came into their own, each with its following of readers. Significant social developments and themes can be traced both in the Companion at large and via the topic entries, which for the first time allow readers to explore all the novels in a particular genre.
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The Edwardian era marked a great turning point in modern British history. In many spheres it produced the culmination of British power and influence which had been growing rapidly in the nineteenth century. Yet it also witnessed the beginnings of the decline which was accelerated through the twentieth century. Abroad, the British Empire reached its zenith during the Edwardian years but the military challenge of Germany was growing stronger. At home, the apparently dominant Liberal and Conservative parties were being threatened by a new political force in the Socialists. Many misconceptions about the period, social, economic, political, and diplomatic have gained currency. At one extreme, it has been seen as a Golden age, shattered by the sudden impact of war in 1914; at the other extreme, it has been portrayed as an age of crisis, its society already collapsing under pressure of internal problems. This survey presents a vivid portrait of the turmoil and vibrance of British society at the beginning of the twentieth century and suggests ways in which the history of this period has shaped the subsequent development of Britain through the century.