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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGuantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · 448 pages
"This is the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to
My Life As A Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani · 249 pages
Ghahramani, 20, an Iranian student, was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. Her crime, she asserts, was sliding back her headscarf to feel the sun on her hair. This led to a political activism fueled by the fearless idealism of the young. Her parents begged her
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy · 370 pages
"Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election. He ended up spending the next three months in Iran's most notorious prison. This title tells the story of a UK journalist imprisoned and tortured in Iran." --Publisher description.
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine Harden · 256 pages
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In Escape From C
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
Paul Hattaway, Brother Yun · 352 pages
Brother Yun is a entrepeneur leader in the underground Christian church of China. He lives now in Germany and this book is a biography of his life and inspiring walk with Jesus.
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Warren Fellows · 192 pages
When Hell Was in Session
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., Ed Brandt · 246 pages
Denton, a Navy pilot, recounts his experiences as a prisoner of war held in Hanoi's infamous Hanoi Hilton prison complex.
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan · 302 pages
Papillon
Henri Charriere · 544 pages
Describes the life of a man sent to prison on a miserable island, Cayena, where escape is impossible. It is a terrible life for him but he finally escapes after much suffering.
The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
Nick Flynn · 283 pages
A dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir about becoming a father in the age of terror.
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson · 392 pages
It is a true story of an idealistic Jewish man who who gets caught up in and believes the political ideologies of communism and a progressive, social justice political system until he actually experiences living under that system which sends him and countless other political prisoners to cruel prison camps and a gulag in Siberia. This is one of those kinds of books that you don’t want to put
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela · 638 pages
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot · 264 pages
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi · 294 pages
Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Nawal El-Saadawi · 197 pages
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
Roxana Saberi · 321 pages
"A chronicle of the Iranian-American journalist's imprisonment, as well as a look at Iran and its political tensions"--Provided by publisher.
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng · 547 pages
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil, Nien Cheng enjoyed comforts that few of her compatriots could afford. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of th
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
Bill Browder · 403 pages
Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
Scott Payne · 256 pages
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Mychal Denzel Smith · 240 pages
"A prominent journalist and contributing writer to The Nation magazine describes his education and the experiences of black masculinity against a backdrop of the Obama administration, the death of Trayvon Martin, the career of LeBron James and other pivotal influences that have shaped race relations in today's America,"--NoveList. How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men
Curfewed Night
Basharat Peer · 234 pages
Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known p