BOOKS: HUMAN RIGHTS
Contact me now by: E-MAIL Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ~George Washington
IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMAZON.COM
When you click on any book title below, you will be taken to that book in the Amazon.com website. You will no longer be on the this website. But please do come back; you can hit your back button! This list is compiled entirely by Judy Gosnell.
PLEASE NOTE: THESE BOOKS ARE BOTH FICTION AND/OR NONFICTION. The fiction has been included here because much of the "story" reveals human rights issues. For example, you cannot read THE TRUE STORY OF HANSEL AND GRETEL without becoming emotionally involved with the horrors of Nazi occupation of Europe.
by Jennifer K. Harbury "As the grim photographs of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib came to light, the public reaction across the United States was one of near..." (more)
STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR, Monteforte Over 50 years ago...March 10, 1953: Joseph Stalin died. Joseph Stalin was responsible for unspeakable horrors: for ruining familial relationships and friendships, and for the deaths of tens of millions of Russians and others. Stalin was the greatest mass-murderer of all time. Many historians say over 50 million perished and/or were tortured under his regime.
STALIN: by Edvard Radzinsky (location/time frame: Russia 20th Century) The first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives.
ISBN 0275981002 Amazon Book Description: Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service. The fleet's task was to relocate approximately one-million forced laborers to the Soviet Gulag in Kolyma, located along the Arctic Circle in far northeastern Siberia. Bollinger presents the often-horrific stories of the Gulag fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the United States government in the operation.
STOLEN LIVES, Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Mailka Oufkir (Morocco in 20th Century) True account by Malika Oufkir, young playmate to the daughter of the King of Morocco: after a coup attempt led by her father, the entire family was imprisoned for 20 years; the father was killed outright.
WILD SWANS, Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang (China in 19th and 20th Century) Written by the youngest of the three (the granddaughter) - true account, explores living during the takeover of China by the Communist regime. What the people of China experienced during these times of terror and the rule of Mao Zedong.
(explore the slums, aka favelas, the deep hunger, of Sao Paulo with a woman who lived it. This book has become a classic. Maria de Jesus wrote on strips of scrap paper, finally putting this book together.)
IN MY HANDS, MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER, by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong (Poland, WWII) What it was like for a non-Jew to risk life on a daily basis in order to save the lives of the people Hitler was trying to exterminate. True account by a Polish Catholic woman whose humanity towards others was awe-inspiring.
Library Journal calls Khrushchev 'the baby boomers' biggest bogeyman'. He "...jangled the nerves of a generation of Americans fearing a nuclear holocaust." And yet, he had much to do with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the exposure of Stalin's Crimes.
THE TRUE STORY OF HANSEL & GRETEL, "a poignant and suspenseful retelling of a famous fairy tale set in a war-torn world" Time: the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland.
The incredible story of Washington Post reporter Danny Pearl by his wife, Mariane Pearl. Danny was kidnapped and executed, with the videos sent by the terrorists to the press. An amazing story of love and commitment.
American immigrant Nora ventures back to her home in Samara, along the southern Volga River.
THE GREAT FIRE: by Shirley Hazzard ISBN 0312423586 The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.
In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia’s coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity. The Great Fire is a story of love in the aftermath of war by "purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today." (Michael Cunningham)
The KITE RUNNER, by Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini, political turmoil in Afghanistan.
Khadra is the nom de plume for Algerian army officer Mohamed Moulessehoul (In the Name of God; Wolf Dreams), who illustrates the effects of repression on a pair of Kabul couples in this slim, harrowing novel of life in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
LEFT TO TELL, by Immaculee Ilibagiza the amazing story of survival of a Rwandan Tutsi woman. Hiding 91 days in a 3x4 bathroom.while her entire family and one million of her fellow Tutsis were slaughtered.
