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  • Boer Wars: A History From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    As General Patton once said, "The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it."The reputation of the Boer is not entirely unearned. At a time when South Africa was a place inhabited by the toughest of men, only those who lived in the saddle with a gun in their hands could possibly survive.Inside you will read about...✓ The Creation of the Boer✓ Growing Tensions✓ Colley Steps In✓ The End ... Read more

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  • Wind, Sand And Stars

    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...
    From the author of the beloved classic The Little Prince and a winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière. ... Read more

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  • Hero

    The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

    by Michael Korda ...
    From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive biography of T. E. Lawrence—the legendary British soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer whose exploits as “Lawrence of Arabia” created a legacy of mythic proportions in his own lifetime.Many know T ... Read more

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  • Algerian Chronicles

    by Albert Camus ...
    More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958—the year the war caused the collapse of the Fourth French Republic—it is one of Albert Camus’ most political works: an exploration of his commitment to Algeria. ... Read more

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  • The Sign and the Seal

    The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

    by Graham Hancock ...
    A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details behind the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant.The Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, ... Read more

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  • Imprisoned

    by Sylvia Neame ...
    This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian (see the three-volume, The Congress Movement, HSRC Press, 2015), has not written a classical historical memoir. Rather, this book is a highly personal account, written in an original style. At the same time, it ... Read more

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  • Nelson Mandela: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.Inside you will read about...✓ A boy in rural South Africa✓ Egoli...place of gold✓ The African National Congress and the birth ... Read more

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  • Egyptian Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geraldine Pinch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The complex world of Egyptian myth is clearly illuminated in this fascinating new approach to ancient Egypt. Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden statue, to a story on papyrus of the gods misbehaving. What did they mean, and how have they been interpreted? The reader is taken ... Read more

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  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    by Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

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  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    by Imani Perry ...
    A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is ... Read more

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  • Lost Worlds

    by Leonard Cottrell ...
    Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, in a few favored areas of the world, humankind mastered the formulas that released it from the Stone Age. For the first time in history, people became civilized. This globe- and time-trotting book vividly describes how a number of major civilizations - the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Khmers, the Etruscans, and more - emerged, thrived, faded, but left a mark on our ... Read more

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  • River of the Gods

    Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

    by Candice Millard ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicABEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • GOODREADS"A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the ... Read more

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  • World Travel

    An Irreverent Guide

    by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever ...
    A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter ... Read more

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  • Fall of Civilizations

    Stories of Greatness and Decline

    by Paul Cooper ...
    **"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."―**The TimesBased on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and ... Read more

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  • Angola

    The Battle of Kifangondo, 1975

    by MIGUEL JUNIOR ...
    The world has witnessed several battles since the dawn of time. Whether ancient or recent, they all contain a wealth of data useful for life in several circumstances. These battles, which had a significant influence on the life of mankind and defined the course of history, have been the object of study by many scholars. Besides these and other battles framed in the context of great armed conflicts ... Read more

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  • Nigeria

    Contemporary Commentaries & Essays

    by Alfred Obiora Uzokwe ...
    This book is a collection of Alfred Obiora Uzokwes critical commentaries about Nigerias triumphs, woes and the way forward. It brings his writings into one volume as a reference material for those conducting research about the country. It will also serve as another tool for Nigerias policy makers in their everyday quest for better decision-making. The subjects of the commentaries are diverse, ... Read more

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  • The Punishment

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    An innocent man’s gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despotIn 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a ... Read more

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  • The Rorke's Drift Commanders

    Gonville Bromhead and John Chard

    by James W Bancroft ...
    Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead and Lieutenant John Chard had fame thrust upon them, as did the place known as Rorke’s Drift, which before 1879 was an unknown homestead situated in the middle of the South African veld.Although both men came from families whose various members were highly distinguished for their military service and for their service to the church, they became reluctant heroes after ... Read more

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  • The Unlikely Secret Agent

    by Ronnie Kasrils ...
    Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The UnlikelySecret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against theapartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state isunder siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security Police descendedon Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the white daughterof the manager. They ... Read more

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  • Jack Simons

    Teacher, Scholar, Comrade

    by Hugh Macmillan ...
    Series series Jacana Pocket History Series
    Born in 1907, Jack Simons was one of the leading left-wing intellectuals and one of the greatest teachers in 20thcentury South Africa. As a lecturer in African Studies at the University of Cape Town from 1937 until he was prevented from teaching by the government in 1964, and thereafter through his lectures and writings in exile, he had a profound effect on the thinking of generations of white ... Read more

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  • African Insurgencies: From the Colonial Era to the 21st Century

    by Richard A. Lobban Jr., Chris H. Dalton ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    Presenting a continent-wide comparative analysis of ethnic, political, and colonially based insurgencies, this text examines the causes, tactics, outcomes, and key individuals of African insurgent events and assesses a range of foreseeable outcomes in Africa's multiple regions of continuing political instability.Insurgencies continue to erupt in many nations of Africa. The techniques and intended ... Read more

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  • A TSUNAMI OF LIES CANNOT HIDE THE TRUTH

    by G. AMARE ...
    In this book, Gidey Amare enlightens the readers about the genocidal war waged against the people of Tigray and the intolerable suffering they endured. When the world failed them, the Almighty God helped them remain strong, patient, and resilient. He offered them leadership and the ability to defeat the evil enemies who had planned and launched a brutal genocidal war to exterminate the entire ... Read more

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  • Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

    by Gerhard Kubik ...
    Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil. His insights and interpretations in areas such as language, music, religion, and social organization ... Read more

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  • Kwacha

    by Ken Swan ...
    England, 1958: Young Higgs is a hard-working motorcycle mechanic in Milton-Keynes. The entire country is generally cold and damp. There’s got to be more out there for a man with his ambition. The future looks grey. Until he picks up the paper over a pint one night in The Carrington Arms.The Northern Rhodesia Police Force (NRP) needs men now.A phone call, some paperwork, and a few handshakes later, ... Read more

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