political prisoners

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Nazi concentration camps

A policy of genocide
2015
Concentration camps, the epicenters of Nazi atrocities, represent a harrowing chapter of world and human history. Part of a highly organized system intended to decimate Europe's Jewish population and other groups deemed undesirable by Adolf Hitlers regime.

Nelson Mandela

South Africa's anti-apartheid revolutionary
2014
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela, a South African political activist who was imprisoned for his rebellion against racial segregation and was later elected as the first black president of South Africa.

A dangerous inheritance

a novel of Tudor rivals and the secret of the Tower
2012

Bloody crimes

the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse
2010

Mandela

the rebel who led his nation to freedom
2008
Tells the life story of South African political leader Nelson Mandela, discussing the villages of his childhood, the Xhosa people, his education, his fight to end apartheid, his many years in prison, and his victory as president in South Africa's first democratic elections.

Nelson Mandela

journey to freedom
1997
A biography of Nelson Mandela's life, from his idyllic childhood through his years of imprisonment to his triumphant election as president of South Africa.

Missing

2004
New York businessman Ed Horman and his daughter-in-law Beth put aside their past differences and work together to find his son, Charles, an American writer and filmmaker who disappeared during a military coup while working in South America.

Mandela

el rebelde que dirigi? a su naci?n a la libertad
2006
Tells the life story of Nelson Mandela, the political activist who was imprisoned twenty-eight years and became South Africa's first post-apartheid president.

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