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Author : Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Release : 1999
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis A Congo Chronicle by : Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Download or read book A Congo Chronicle written by Bogumil Jewsiewicki. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dunham
Release : 2001-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Congo Chronicles by : Thomas Dunham
Download or read book The Congo Chronicles written by Thomas Dunham. This book was released on 2001-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered around adoption and the realistic aspect of the " dysfuctional family syndrome". These very real and ackward situations can be the cause of severe consequences within the family. At some point, "family" must realize that the "big cover-up", is not always for the "best"...but in most cases it happens to, "save face", from the opinion of the community, at large. All things happen for a reason...in the end, it depends on how we handle the reality of it all.
Author : Adam Hochschild
Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 202/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis King Leopold's Ghost by : Adam Hochschild
Download or read book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : Jason Stearns
Release : 2012-03-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 594/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by : Jason Stearns
Download or read book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters written by Jason Stearns. This book was released on 2012-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Author : Peter Forbath
Release : 1991
Genre : Congo River Valley
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Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The River Congo by : Peter Forbath
Download or read book The River Congo written by Peter Forbath. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the primitive splendor, historical atrocities, explorations, and modern-day struggles associated with the African river
