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Author: Paul Harris
Publisher:
Published: 1998-07-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781901205091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eyewitness accounts, and the photographs of wrecked buildings, once-prosperous but now homeless people, and the sad army of stray pets will bring the war in Bosnia home to many who have seen it as just another news media spectacle.
Author: Maria Herkal
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1525512684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s shortly after World War II in Eastern Europe when a tormented young woman steps up to the door of a speeding train...and prepares to throw her baby outside. What happens next will forever alter the lives of the young woman, the horrified teacher who steps up to stop her...and the three-month old baby born into such dark circumstances. And so begins the life of Yugoslavian Ramona, whose childhood will be terribly marred by the weaknesses of those entrusted with her care. Buffeted from place to place with the violent secrets of how she came to be slowly revealed to her, Ramona eventually decides to leave the horrors of her childhood behind for a new start in Canada. There she begins to find her way and learn to love...until fresh tragedy sends her life off course and she finds herself trapped in an abusive marriage as miserable as her childhood. But Ramona has endured so much; she has vast reservoirs of strength within her. Now with two children of her own to protect, she slowly begins to extricate herself from the horror of her marriage to build a new life, free of abuse at last.
Author: Steve Katz
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007-12-23
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1573661392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth. At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms—genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games—while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
Author: Christian Jennings
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1137278684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe amazing story of how a team of forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking techniques to identify the victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is bringing war criminals to justice worldwide
Author: Milette Shamir
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002-04-10
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0231506341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by addressing the history and politics of emotion in prevailing narratives about masculinity. How did the story of the emotionally stifled U.S. male come into being? What are its political stakes? Will the "release" of straight, white, middle-class masculine emotion remake existing forms of power or reinforce them? This collection forcefully challenges our most entrenched ideas about male emotion. Through readings of works by Thoreau, Lowell, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and of twentieth century authors such as Hemingway and Kerouac, this book questions the persistence of the emotionally alienated male in narratives of white middle-class masculinity and addresses the political and social implications of male emotional release.
Author: William S. Walker
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1608446603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, the most violent chapter in the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, forced more than 2,000,000 people from their homes. Europe witnessed the greatest refugee crisis since the end of World War II and Germany became the primary refuge for Bosnians fleeing the fighting. "German and Bosnian Voices In A Time Of Crisis" is the story of what happened during those war years and afterwards when nearly 350,000 Bosnians came to Germany. The story is told with precision and eloquence by William Walker, a journalist with intimate knowledge of Germany, his home for more than 30 years, and the Balkan region, where he worked often during the last two decades. "German and Bosnian Voices In A Time Of Crisis" began as a doctoral dissertation in 2005 at the Seminar of East European History of Heidelberg University. The author, William Walker, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for this study of the refugees' time in Germany. The dissertation, which was the result of two years of interviews throughout Germany and the Balkans, was accepted with honors by the university in December 2009. In praising "German and Bosnian Voices" as an eloquently written, groundbreaking document, one of the university evaluators noted, "This work brings us closer to an understanding of the basic problem of German history in the 1990s. Above all it puts our focus on the victims of the history."
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2001-12-09
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1429957549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCry Wolf by Wilbur Smith The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome", Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...
Author: Jasmine Taylor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 143893405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSilk was inspired by my mother who came to me in a dream after her death poetry reflects the views of life and whats goes on in it it talks from the heart poems about being in love about longing the misery of separation pains of love misery rape sex rejection, poems of war, poems of nature, death, poems of destiny, the exodus of slavery, poems of genocide, letter to a loved one in death, poems of comedy, children's poetry, I get great pleasure in performance poetry.
Author: Kenan Trebincevic
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1101631805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan’s miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father’s wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he’s really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful—and shocking—than revenge.
