We Refused to Die - 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 We Refused to Die write by Gene Samuel Jacobsen. This book was released on 2004. We Refused to Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In engaging, direct prose, Gene Jacobsen chronicles his three-and-a-half-year experience as a prisoner of war, during which time he endured the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in the Philippines and Japan.
I Refuse to Die
I Refuse to Die - 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 I Refuse to Die write by Koigi Wa Wamwere. This book was released on 2003-11-04. I Refuse to Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the Kenyan people, as well as dream prophecy and folk tales that are part of Kenya's rich storytelling tradition. Tracing the roots of the Mau Mau rebellion, wa Wamwere follows the evolution and degeneration of Jomo Kenyatta and the rise of Daniel arap Moi. In 1979, wa Wamwere won a seat in the parliament, where he represented the economically depressed Nakuru district for three years. An outspoken activist and journalist, wa Wamwere was framed and detained on three separate instances, spending thirteen years in prison, where he was tortured but not broken. His mother and others led a hunger strike to free him and fellow political prisoners. Their efforts brought about a show trial at which Koigi was sentenced to four more years in prison and "six strokes of the cane," and escaped Kenya—and probably execution—only through the exertions of human rights groups and the government of Norway.
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die - 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 Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die write by Elton Mackin. This book was released on 2009-03-12. Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin’s memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine who fought in every Marine Brigade battle from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice. Praise for Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die “This beautifully written and truly gripping war memoir is a significant addition to battlefield literature. A minor classic . . . An altogether remarkable job [comparable] to Crane, Remarque and Mailer. Deserves the widest possible audience.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer “This immediate, eloquent report merit[s] comparison with Thomas Boyd’s Marine Corps [1923] classic Through the wheat.”—Publishers Weekly “A real curiosity: a highly mannered World War I diary, published nearly 80 years after being written and 20 years after its author’s death. Bright snapshots abound…sometimes a young man’s lyricism takes over [but] the horror of war never departs. The diary has the faults one expects, and the promise one prays for. A fine addition to WWI literature.”—Kirkus Reviews “A forthright, eloquent, and powerful memoir certain to become an enduring testament to the drama and tragedy of World War I. Threaded with no small measure of poetry, this superb memoir is sure to become a classic.”—Great Battles “A plain but powerful tale . . . [in] vivid prose loaded with details that bring the horrors of World War I to life, he tells an exceptional new version of the old story of battle transforming a boy into a veteran.”—American Library Association Booklist “To the ranks of Erich Maria Remarque, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos and Siegfried Sassoon, we must now add Elton Mackin . . . who, in a terse style reminiscent of Hemingway, [succeeds] in making someone unfamiliar with war truly now the frightfulness of the trenches and the greatness of the many men who fought in them.”—Marine Corps Gazette
We Refused to Lead a Dying Church!
We Refused to Lead a Dying Church! - 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 We Refused to Lead a Dying Church! write by Paul Nixon. This book was released on 2012-04-01. We Refused to Lead a Dying Church! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Nixon does it again with this groundbreaking follow-up to his bestseller "I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church!" "We Refused to Lead a Dying Church!" shares the miracles of God’s transformative power in dying churches that decided to choose life with real examples of ordinary pastors and lay leaders who inspired church growth. Nixon shares the stories of fifteen churches from the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, and Presbyterian Church (USA) that decided giving up, dying, was not an option.
Sevek and the Holocaust
Sevek and the Holocaust - 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 Sevek and the Holocaust write by Sidney Finkel. This book was released on 2006. Sevek and the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Holocaust survivor tells his story, including how he lived in a cramped and disease-ridden ghetto, saw his family murdered, endured the horrors of the Treblinka death camp, ate grass for survival in the final days before reaching freedom, and, finally, resumed his education in a foreign country after a six-year lapse.
