Hell Is a Very Small Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hell Is a Very Small Place write by Jean Casella. This book was released on 2014-11-11. Hell Is a Very Small Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews
Hell in a Very Small Place
Hell in a Very Small Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hell in a Very Small Place write by Bernard B. Fall. This book was released on 1967. Hell in a Very Small Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambitions), what it foretold (American involvement), and what it symbolized: A guerrilla force of Viet Minh destroyed a technologically superior French army, convincing the Viet Minh that similar tactics might prevail in battle with the U.S.
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation write by John Matteson. This book was released on 2021-02-09. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
A Short Stay in Hell
A Short Stay in Hell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short Stay in Hell write by Steven L. Peck. This book was released on 2012. A Short Stay in Hell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A damned man struggles to find meaning in a library, the dimensions of which are measured in light years.
A Small Place
A Small Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Small Place write by Jamaica Kincaid. This book was released on 2000-04-28. A Small Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
