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NONFICTION
Released: March 22, 2011
THE FEAR: ROBERT MUGABE AND THE MARTYRDOM OF ZIMBABWE
by Peter Godwin
"The author's return to his beloved homeland transformed by violence and no longer familiar proves heart-wrenching and extremely moving."
Godwin (When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, 2007, etc.), a white Zimbabwean journalist schooled in and relocated to England, bears brave witness to the last brutal days of Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 16, 2011
Kirkus Star THE LAST JEW OF TREBLINKA: A SURVIVOR'S MEMORY, 1942-1943
by Chil Rajchman, translated by Solon Beinfeld
"A Holocaust testament of heart-rending immediacy."
A survivor of industrialized genocide describes the housekeeping details and the management of business in a Nazi death camp. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
Kirkus Star THE LONGEST WAR: AMERICA AND AL-QAEDA SINCE 9/11
by Peter L. Bergen
"One of the deepest and most disturbing investigations of one of the defining issues of our era."
A revelatory, pull-no-punches history of the War on Terror, from before 9/11 to the present day. Read full book review >