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"Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror." - Library Journal (starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman." -- Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews destined for extermination.Instead, they evade the Nazis and the Soviets in several dramatic escapes and selflessly rescue many Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and a labor camp, later becoming active participants in the Warsaw Uprising where they are taken prisoner. This retelling, captured through diaries, interviews, war crime trial testimonies, and letters, detail the Sterners' heroic rescues, escapes, and ultimate survival. A true story of hope amid horrifying tragedy, How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis illustrates how war brings out the worst and the best in people, and how true humanity and heroism of ordinary people are revealed by their willingness to risk everything and help others. This story is about being human under the most inhumane conditions.

"Powerful and brave, heart-wrenching and heartwarming, Standing on Positive Ground shows that pain can be indiscriminate, but so too can perseverance. In this remarkable story, Tony V Rodriguez shares the trials that knocked him down and the strength used to pick himself back up-repeatedly. Inside these pages is an anthem to all those who have faced life's toughest challenges and a testament to those with the heart to fight back." - J.J. Hebert, USA Today bestselling authorStanding on Positive Ground is the heartfelt, inspiring true story of Tony V Rodriguez, whose astonishing tragedies and triumphs span a lifetime. It is an unrivaled testament to survival, faith, and the indomitable human spirit. Before Tony was three years old, he experienced two car accidents, one that nearly cost him his life and permanently changed him physically and mentally. His family, unable to afford the critical extensive care, prayed for a miracle. Answered prayers came through his community, God, and organizations such as the Shriner's Burns Hospital. Since then, he has survived two near-death experiences, ten auto accidents, three motorcycle accidents, Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cancer, a stroke, multiple innovative plastic surgeries, disfigurement discrimination, and two divorces. Through all these extraordinary challenges, Tony also experienced how truly kind people could be, along with the support of the heavenly realm. He knew that he was never alone on his arduous journey. Standing on Positive Ground is filled with tragic as well as joyous outcomes. Join Tony as he shares his personal journey, including how he rises above tremendous circumstances and ultimately lives a life of accomplishment and positivity. It is Tony's greatest hope that his life story uplifts and brings inspiration to the reader.

Whose Coat is that Jacket Hanging on the Floor? serves as a historical testimony and collection of narratives in response to collective trauma.

Fuyant à 13 ans son village savoyard et un univers familial étouffant et maltraitant, Claudius trace son chemin vers les lumières de la ville, Grenoble puis Paris.Il y trouve l'amitié, le travail, l'amour. Mais surviennent la seconde guerre mondiale puis la captivité dans les stalags allemands.Alors l'idée d'évasion devient une obsession qui permet de tenir, et sa mise en oeuvre une vraie aventure.A travers ce récit on découvre la résilience et la force vitale de cet homme qui a toujours trouvé des ressorts d'action dans les épreuves qu'il a subies.

As a young woman Cathy Sultan dreamed of living in a foreign land. She realized that dream in 1969 when she moved with her Lebanese husband and two infants from the United States to Beirut--a city known for its welcoming residents, breathtaking landscape and cosmopolitan culture. Sultan quickly grew to adore Beirut despite its seedy side and came to think of it as her dysfunctional lover. Even after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 her feelings were slow to change. Using cooking as a tranquilizer, Sultan worked tirelessly to provide a home environment that was comforting to her family and inviting to friends. Even as bullets pierced her own kitchen and bombs destroyed the ancient city and the lives of loved ones, she and her family refused to be driven from their home and their humanity. A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War is the riveting story of how a wife and mother struggled to maintain order and normality amid the unspeakable cruelty of civil war.

Seventeen people flee their home country in a tiny fishing boat on the open sea.They sneak out of communist Vietnam under the cover of darkness, heading for the South China Sea-and freedom.On board is a pregnant mother, carrying her third child. Two young daughters. And a father, a former soldier with nothing in his pockets but a pack of cigarettes.Leaving behind a land they love and fear, they navigate unexpected perils and terrifying times in their daring escape.This true and inspiring memoir about one family's journey is both their personal history and the rich history of America: a land built on hope and faith by immigrants and refugees-people who risked everything to reach its shores.Grab your copy of Fleeing to Freedom today!

Make no friends. War is hard enough as it is. Sure. It sounded like good advice from well-meaning superior officers, but it was impossible to do. Soldiers grow closer to one another and develop deeper relationships than civilians will never know. They boot together, train together, work together, fight together, are petrified in battle together, and even sometimes die together. Some of them ended up prisoners of the Japanese together. There they face war at its worst. Their lives already hanging by a thread, companions from different parts of the country and even from different parts of the U.S. military find themselves at the mercy of their captors. Eventually chosen as part of the "fit" prisoners who will finish out the war in Japan making enemy war materiel, they have hopes that their suffering will ease and they will survive the war. Then the unthinkable happens. Their transport torpedoed by Allied submarines, they replace the horrors of death at Camp Chang' for the horrors of death under the merciless sun on a tiny raft floating in the Pacific Ocean. Will they survive? And what about the mental strain on their compatriots who sent hundreds of fellow Allied soldiers to a watery grave?

The incredible story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the US evacuation of Afghanistan - and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape. When the US began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Afghan army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in a contentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Despite her fierce determination to stay in her homeland, it finally became clear to Homeira that escaping was the only way she and her family would survive. However, like so many, she was mired in the chaos that ensued at Kabul Airport, struggling to get on a plane with her eight-year-old son, Siawash, along with her parents and the rest of their family.  Meanwhile, a young US foreign service officer, Sam Aronson, who had volunteered to help rescue the more than 100,000 Americans and their Afghan helpers stranded in Kabul, learned that the CIA had established a secret entrance into Kabul Airport two miles away from the desperate crowds crushing toward the gates. He started bringing families directly through, and on the very last day of the evacuation, Sam was contacted by Homeira's literary agent, who persuaded him to help Homeira get out.  The story that follows is unbelievable but true. Zuckoff's firsthand accounts come exclusively and directly from Homeira, Aronson, and Homeira's literary agent. The Secret Gate is beyond riveting, and will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Experience a firsthand journey through one woman's encounter with nature's frames of perception and ultimate peace contentment as she survives her myriad of challenges, isolation, abandonment, and despair.The odyssey is all-encompassing within the woods where the saddened woman first meets Jesus, disguised as a semi-clothed bicycle rider in the peak of the woods on her daily climb on the mountain.Despite the plethora of unfavorable turns of events, her loyalty and devotion to God overrides her anxiety, disbelief, grief, poverty, racism, natural disasters, and pandemics that beset her journey.Within her wanderings, she encounters the Holy Scriptures, which unravels corpuscles of fortune serving to enable her consequential cognizance of Jesus Christ the Lord at work.This collection of scriptures will bring encouragement and tranquility to the reader throughout every moment of their life.The reader will become one with God, as one of his chosen people through her Holy Land experience, and will be filled with joy and spirituality.The descriptions are culturally entertaining upon reading and are designed to explore the words and sentiments of the Lord, bringing a sense of relief, hope, faith, and a vision of blessings, bringing wisdom and destiny to which for generations to come may encounter the Scriptures. A must-read!All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord stands forever. (1 Peter 1:24-25)

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death. Protesting in the name of principles Hitler thought he had killed forever, Sophie Scholl and other members of the White Rose realized that the ';Germanization' Hitler sought to enforce was cruel and inhuman, and that they could not be content to remain silent in its midst. With detailed chronicles of Scholl's arrest and trial before Hitler's Hanging Judge, Roland Freisler, as well as appendices containing all of the leaflets the White Rose wrote and circulated, this volume is an invaluable addition to World War II literature and a fascinating window into human resilience in the face of dictatorship.

"There was a huge public outpouring to the ... articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni--including many by suicide--and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece ... covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing fight for justice on behalf of the survivors. No one would know this story without Liz, known around the world as Survivor993, and this searing memoir ... shares the story of her years at Family Foundation, and her rage and recovery in the years after she left"--

A comprehensive history of the 1972 Andes Flight disaster. MONOCHROME EDITION, 571 pages and 275 images. Also available in COLOUR.

Trapped under Mussolini's reign and Hitler's occupation, this riveting true story is propelled by a brave girl's courage and a family's bond as they struggle to survive the battle between evil and the power of love.

Remembering the Alchemists is an intense, passionate, and moving collection of personal essays that never loses sight of the moral issues it raises. At times thoughtful and wise and at other times a cri de c¿ur, it is held together by the experienced voice of an essayist at the top of his game. Richard Hoffman speaks softly, even reverently, in the presence of art and the natural world, but addressing militarism, war, and violence against children, he writes with urgency and earnest questioning. Several of these essays ask how it is that we seem to have given up on ourselves, and what it might take to turn the cascading traumas of history into compassion for one another and lessons for the future. In this award-winning poet's fourth book of prose, sentences can open into reverie or stop you in your tracks. Whether he is writing about a painting, the work of another writer, a tree that grew in front of his boyhood home, the atrocities visited upon children, the superstructure of exploitation and oppression, or the responsibility to be "good ancestor," Hoffman pleads with us to move beyond familiar tropes and assumptions and relinquish a learned despondency that ensures a future of more wars, ongoing injustice, and stifled potential. He transforms personal experience not into "the universal," that categorical abstraction, but into the public, the civic, the ethically useful. These seventeen essays aspire to do more than diagnose our current malaise; they attempt to lift us from it, to clarify our situation, to encourage and inspire. Although Hoffman's candor can at times be shocking, the beauty, intelligence, and bracing clarity of his vision challenges readers to meet the demands of our historical moment with confidence. Insisting that no conclusions are foregone, Remembering the Alchemists is ultimately a book about what it means to hope, to have faith, to see clearly and still insist on joy.