Customer Review: THIS SHOULD BE A MUST READ FOR KIDS AND ADULTS..THERE WAS TIMES WHEN I HAD TO PUT THIS DOWN I WAS DEEPLY TOUCHED AND INSPIRED HOW STRONG AND BRAVE THE LOST BOYS WERE..JUST IMAGINE YOUR CHILD GOING THROUGH SUCH TERRIBLE LIFE HARD TO IMAGINE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE LOVE ONES THERE AGE.THIS IS KIDS... more info
Customer Review: In The Translator, Daoud Hari, a Zagawa tribesman from the Darfur region of Sudan recounts his personal experiences of the horrors of the conflict there - the genocide that threatens the very existence of his people. Hari describes the deplorable conditions at the camps and villages and the bloody... more info
Customer Review: In a book-buying market flooded with simple, homespun philosophy and content-free theology, reaching back to Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, to the Chicken Soup series, to The Tao of Pooh, and Living Buddha - Living Christ, to Deepak Chopra's entire body of work, right up to... more info
Customer Review: I purchased this book for my class on Conflict and Conflict Resolution at San Diego State.
This book is very detailed giving all the background on Sudan the country, its different tribes and groups as well as all of the individuals who have held or are seeking power in Sudan. The book... more info
Customer Review: Slave is an alarmingly true story about the modern day slave trade. I could not put this book down. My heart was pounding towards the end as Mende was attempting to escape. I recommend this book to anyone who is willing to have thier eyes opened to the very disturbing fact the there are people... more info
Customer Review: Winston Churchill was a man of many talents. Among those that would serve him well, throughout his life, was the ability to observe and write. His recounting of the reconquest of the Sudan still stands today as a thrilling adventure on all fronts. As a young man he was with Kitchener and the fight... more info
Customer Review: Gerard Prunier begins his book with historical background. He starts in fifteenth-century, but moving quickly he reaches the twentieth century by page twenty. He describes Darfur as neglected first by the British colonial administration and then by the Sudanese government after independence. Darfur... more info
Customer Review: A good book, written almost 50 years ago (at a time when many African countries were gaining independence) about the discovery, conquest and colonization of the Nile region by Europeans in the period 1850-1900. The first part of the book deals with the exploration of the source of the Nile by such... more info
Customer Review: Read about the present, daily, butcherings, torturing and endless sufferings of the Darfurians. As I read this book, the atrocities reminded me of what is similarily and presently happening to the helpless Palestinians. These stories come right from the people who experienced them. I really came out... more info
Customer Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book so as to receive an honest accounting (and education) of the horrors of Darfur. I wanted to learn about the politics behind the genocide. The players. The purported solution. None of that was offered in this book. First, it was written as though the... more info