Escape To Freedom The Story Of The Us Escape Program

Author : United States. Foreign Operations Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Freedom, the Story of the U.S. Escape Program written by United States. Foreign Operations Administration and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passages to Freedom written by Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Bok
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429971010
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Slavery written by Francis Bok and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.

Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771132302
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight and Freedom written by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Alsamari
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 0307394026
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Saddam written by Lewis Alsamari and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and, thanks in part to his fluent English, was soon offered a post in Iraqi military intelligence. The job would have made him powerful, comfortably wealthy . . . and a cog in Saddam Hussein’s massive machine of terror. Unable to accept becoming a member of Saddam’s secret police, yet knowing that turning down this “honor” would be considered treasonous, Lewis made plans to flee Iraq. His escape was fraught with peril–he was shot, detained at borders, even pursued by hungry wolves across the desert–but the teenager made his way to Jordan, then Malaysia, and finally to England, where he was granted political asylum. Lewis began building a life for himself, even falling in love and getting married. But he was haunted by thoughts of the loved ones he left behind in Iraq, his uncle’s words echoing in his ears: we are sending you to freedom so that one day you may rescue us from this place. One day, shocking news arrived: because of his escape, Lewis’s family–including his mother and sister–had been interrogated, beaten, and thrown into prison. Frantic with guilt and worry, Lewis was forced to steal the thousands of dollars he needed to buy their release and smuggle them out of Iraq. Then, accompanied by his wife, he embarked on a desperate journey in hope of bringing his family to freedom. Escape from Saddam is a powerful nonfiction thriller that, even as it plunges the reader into a netherworld of crooked border police, military checkpoints, counterfeiters, and smugglers, provides a fascinating window into a totalitarian regime. It is also a remarkably inspirational story of a resourceful young man who refused to accept his fate . . . and then risked everything he’d achieved to save his family. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear of Freedom written by Erich Fromm and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148040201X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Freedom written by Erich Fromm and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people choose authoritarianism over freedom? The classic study of the psychological appeal of fascism by a New York Times–bestselling author. The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination. This freedom, however, can make people feel unmoored, and is often accompanied by feelings of isolation, fear, and the loss of self, all leading to a desire for authoritarianism, conformity, or destructiveness. It is not only the question of freedom that makes Fromm’s debut book a timeless classic. In this examination of the roots of Nazism and fascism in Europe, Fromm also explains how economic and social constraints can also lead to authoritarianism. By the author of The Sane Society and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, this is a fascinating examination of the anxiety that underlies our darkest impulses, an enlightening volume perfect for readers of Eric Hoffer or Hannah Arendt. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 1625391560
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Freedom written by Michael Phillips and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic escape from the Iron Curtain tests the convictions of a father and daughter on the run in the Secret of the Rose series. Aided by her one-time love, the American Matthew McCallum, Sabina von Dortmann has succeeded in rescuing her father from a Russian prison where he was held by the Nazis for many years. But now Matthew and the von Dortmanns must begin the far more challenging task of escaping the Iron Curtain and eluding the Communist authorities. Once important members of an underground network dedicated to helping Jews escape the Nazi death camps, the von Dortmanns themselves must now rely on strangers in a hostile country—as well as their unwavering faith in God—to find their freedom.

Author : Barbara Brooks Simons
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 145090744X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Freedom the Underground Railroad written by Barbara Brooks Simons and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the secret language of the Underground Railroad and the routes that helped slaves escape to freedom.

Author : Mike Meserole
Publisher : Young Voyageur
ISBN 13 : 0760354391
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Escape written by Mike Meserole and published by Young Voyageur. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 100 Allied prisoners of war attempt to break out of a supposedly 'escape-proof' Nazi camp in 1944 by secretly creating a 350-foot tunnel.