Political oppression & persecution books

Eyewitness: Writings from the Ordeal of Communism is a record of those who responded to the evil that settled on...  Read More >>

During World War II, thousands of American servicemen were taken prisoner by the Axis powers.  Read More >>

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This is the devastating, ""unwritten"" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, a book which has...  Read More >>

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Do ethnic Arabs or Palestinians have a future within the borders of the state of Israel? It deals broadly with relations...  Read More >>

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A leader in the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front recounts her capture and imprisonment by the Salvadoran government...  Read More >>

The moving story of Sheila Cassidy, who as a young doctor went to work in Chile and became caught in the terrible...  Read More >>

This is the story of the """"Forty-Eighters"""", political refugees who fled German-speaking countries in the aftermath...  Read More >>

Challenging the conventional view of Vietnam as the aggressor, this volume vindicates Vietnam's role in the Cambodian...  Read More >>

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Memoirs of the Chinese author, Chen Xeuzhao, who was branded a ""rightist"" by the communist authorities. The book...  Read More >>

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This autobiographical work was written in 1980 by a leading Chinese dissident, who was released from jail in October...  Read More >>

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Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment...  Read More >>

This bibliography includes English-language first-person accounts of individuals who survived or witnessed, as bystanders,...  Read More >>

This biography of Dmitri Shostakovich demands a re-evaluation of the composer's political ideology, claiming that...  Read More >>

A look at 'McCarthyism' in its historical context, from the rise of extreme anti-communism in the 1930s to its demise...  Read More >>

Drawing on Jewish sources and official Tsarist government archives, this is an account of the shutdown of a major...  Read More >>

Akhmatova was a leading figure in the renaissance of Russian poetry earlier this century who, despite seeing family...  Read More >>

From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political...  Read More >>

Memoirs of the Chinese author, Chen Xeuzhao, who was branded a ""rightist"" by the communist authorities. The book...  Read More >>

The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect...  Read More >>