Autobiography: historical, political and military Books
Om Publications The Story of My Experiments with Truth an Autobiography
Book SynopsisIdentification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must mean purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one''s surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world''s praise fails to move me; indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me and given me great joy. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Pentagon Press When People Doubted My Ability to Walk I Decided
Book SynopsisThe very existence of everything in this world is from absolute nothing. You need darkness to feel the presence of light!As I sat down in the chaotic Mumbai suburbs trying to fathom limitless sea of human population around me, it made me realise that there is no limit to the limitlessness. For all who have spent even a little of their time in Mumbai would understand what the city teaches them.... to celebrate humanity. Humanity in all its manifestations; Good, bad, ugly, it doesn’t matter.Born in these very bylanes of the `city limitless` was a child who decided to fly when people doubted his ability to walk!
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OM Books International Escape from Pakistan: A War Hero's Chronicle
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Gefen Publishing House Portrait of a Holocaust Child: Memories &
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Gefen Publishing House From the Holocaust to a New Dawn
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Gefen Publishing House Theodor Herzl: A New Reading
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Gefen Publishing House On the Wings of Faith
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Gefen Publishing House A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal: An Israeli Navy
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Blacksmith Books Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive
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HarperCollins Publishers WHICKERS WAR
Book SynopsisAlan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of British media icons.Trade Review'a vivid warm-hearted record of his experiences as a leading member of the Army Film and Photo Unit in Italy during the second world … Whicker's prose is such a natural expression of his ebullient personality … that reading it one seems to hear that laconic humour and to realize that he is as dapper and jaunty as he was in 1943.'Sunday Times ‘Riveting – a marathon television series, now a compulsive and fascinating book…’Radio 4 'My bookshelf would certainly be poorer without this written record. Inspired…and inspiring.'Manchester Evening News 'It almost doesn't seem like a book at all, for so familiar is the Whicker economy of language and word rhythms that it is impossible to look over the opening paragraphs without hearing the Whicker voice reading the words out loud inside your head.'Jean Moir, Daily Telegraph 'One of the outstanding broadcasters of the age and a reporter with notable gifts. Surrounded by carnage, corpses and the memory of lost friends, his familiar voice was as lilting and playful as ever, but laced with elegy…It was beautifully written and delivered with such assurance that even the pauses were eloquent.'Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph
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HarperCollins Publishers Curfewed Night A Frontline Memoir of Life Love and War in Kashmir
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the Guardian First Book Award and Winner of the Crossword Prize for Non-fictionCurfewed Night is a passionate and important book a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.'' Salman RushdieBasharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control' to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir angrier, more violent, more hopeless was never far away.In 2003 Peer, now a young journalist, left his job and returned to his homeland. Drawing a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and her people a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb, politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, picturesque villages riddled with landmines this is above all, a story of what it reTrade Review'A passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman Rushdie ‘One of the finest books I’ve read this year…Basharat Peer’s memoir reminds us why peace in Kashmir is important, not just to India and Pakistan, but to the world.’ Hari Kunzru, Guardian '’”Curfewed Night” is the finest book I have read on the contemporary Kashmir conflict – literary, humane, clear-eyed and reliable. Basharat Peer has given voice, unforgettably, to a generation of Kashmiris who have never been heard, but who should be.' Steve Coll ‘An extraordinary memoir that does a great deal to bring the Kashmir conflict out of the realm of political rhetoric between India and Pakistan…one of the great achievements of “Curfewed Night” is its seamless mingling of memoir and reportage…It is a formidable challenge to tell the stories of Kashmir's suffering without numbing the readers' senses, and that Peer is able to do so is testament to his gifts and and sensitivity as a writer’ Guardian ‘Fresh and poignant…Peer's tone is non–judgmental…”Curfewed Night” has made his own valuable contribution to Orwell's mission making the political writing an art’ The Economist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Happiest Man on Earth
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Art of Intelligence Lessons from a Life in
Book Synopsis“A lively account . . . combines the derring-do of old-fashioned spycraft with thoughtful meditations on the future of warfare and intelligence work. It deserves to be read.” —The Washington Post“Offer[s] an exceptionally deep glimpse into the CIA’s counterterrorism operations in the last decade of the twentieth century.” —Harper’sA legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed careerRevelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank” Crumpton, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, offers a thrilling account that delivers profound lessons about what it means to serve as an honorable spy. From CIA recruiting missions in Africa to pioneerin
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Tellwell Talent This Faithful Book A Diary from World War Two in the Netherlands
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Yale University Press The StalinKaganovich Correspondence 193136
Book SynopsisFrom 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year, relying on his subordinates to send him information. This volume publishes translations of 180 letters and coded telegrams exchanged during this time between Stalin and his deputy, Lazar Kaganovich.Trade Review"These documents are of singular importance to an understanding of Soviet politics, foreign policy, and economic development of the 1930s. There simply is no more illuminating source on Stalin as politician in the first half of the 1930s than these letters." Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago
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Sarah Crichton Books No Wall Too High
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iUniverse Where Is My Home A Refugee Journey
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iUniverse All My Born Days Stories by a Sharecroppers Son
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iUniverse Hedwigs Story The Life of a Child in Nazi Germany
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iUniverse THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH A HOLOCAUST CHILDHOOD
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iUniverse In a Little Town Called Paxton Family Legends Lessons and Bloopers
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iUniverse THREE COLORS OF MY LIFE
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iUniverse I Will Bear True Faith and Allegiance To the Constitution of the United States
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iUniverse Joseph Franz A Renaissance Man in the Twentieth Century
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iUniverse Memoir 19752005 A testimony from beyond the tomb
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iUniverse OLD GODS NEW NATIONS A Memoir of War Peace and Nation Building
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iUniverse AGAINST ALL ODDS Non fiction
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iUniverse WAR CORRESPONDENT FROM DDAY TO THE ELBE
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iUniverse The Struggle for Liberty Testimony of a Fighter
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iUniverse At War and At Home One Familys World War II Correspondence
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iUniverse A GOOD BOY TOMORROW Memoirs of a Fundamentalist Upbringing
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iUniverse My Wings at Sunset Living a Dream
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iUniverse Jemp A Life among Castles Collaborators and Nazis
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iUniverse The Matejkas My Czech Parents Make an American Life in Baltimore
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iUniverse AN ABUNDANCE OF BLESSINGS
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iUniverse Looking Back At My First Eighty Years A Mostly Professional Memoir
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iUniverse Hedwigs Story The Life of a Child in Nazi Germany
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iUniverse I Solemnly Swear Conmen Dea the Media and Pan Am 103
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iUniverse A Stranger in the Barrio Memoir of a Tampa Sicilian
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