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Book The Prisoner in His Palace

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  • Author : Will Bardenwerper
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 1501117858
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Prisoner in His Palace written by Will Bardenwerper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY). The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their “high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions—about the judicial process, Saddam’s character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers’ increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the media’s portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the “man without a conscience,” gets many of those around him to examine theirs. “A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion” (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us “a behind-the-scenes look at history that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).

Book The Castles  Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland

Download or read book The Castles Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland written by Charles Mackie and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Castles  Palaces  and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots      With Notices of the Visits of King George IV  and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains  New Edition

Download or read book The Castles Palaces and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots With Notices of the Visits of King George IV and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains New Edition written by Charles Mackie and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pauper Prisons  Pauper Palaces

Download or read book Pauper Prisons Pauper Palaces written by Paul Carter and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a product of the Pauper Prison, Pauper Palaces (Midlands) (PPPPM) project which has been managed over the last few years by the British Association for Local History. The archival work was undertaken by a group of around 100 local historians across the Midlands who were interested in examining the lives of poor people in the nineteenth century. The main source which the following accounts originate from is the huge poor law union correspondence series of records held at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew. The poor law union correspondence rivals, if not eclipses, the Victorian census as the domestic archival nineteenth century tour de force and provides some of the most detailed accounts of the lives of ordinary English and Welsh men, women and children.

Book Palaces and Prisons

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  • Author : Ron Miller
  • Publisher : Ace Books
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780441646876
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Palaces and Prisons written by Ron Miller and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palaces and Prisons

Download or read book Palaces and Prisons written by Dorothea Straus and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palaces and Prisons

Download or read book Palaces and Prisons written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prisoners in the Palace

Download or read book Prisoners in the Palace written by Michaela MacColl and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Liza becomes a lady's maid to Princess Victoria and finds that the gossipy world of the palace servants gives her the chance to determine her own fate and help Victoria become queen.

Book From the Pit to the Prison to the Palace

Download or read book From the Pit to the Prison to the Palace written by Fidel M. Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pit to the Prison to the Palace is a book of hope. It describes the benefits of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving. When the author's wife told him that one day he would be preaching the gospel, he laughed. Today, not only is he preaching the gospel but he is also the author of several life changing books, like this one.

Book Palaces  Prisons and Resting Places of Mary  Queen of Scots

Download or read book Palaces Prisons and Resting Places of Mary Queen of Scots written by Michael Myers Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palaces and Prisons

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  • Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1871
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Palaces and Prisons written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palaces and Prisons

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  • Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780371979648
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Palaces and Prisons written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Book My Prison Became a Palace

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  • Author : John Alarid
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11
  • ISBN : 9780736106122
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book My Prison Became a Palace written by John Alarid and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Palace to Prison

Download or read book From Palace to Prison written by Iḥsān Narāqī and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual and illuminating account of the Iranian revolution of 1979, based upon the author's long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before his downfall, and upon his own 33-month experience in prison the first testimony to come from a survivor of the Islamic republic's jails.

Book Bronwyn

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  • Author : Ron Miller
  • Publisher : Timberwolf PressInc
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781587520594
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Bronwyn written by Ron Miller and published by Timberwolf PressInc. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FANTASY: She is beautiful, lithe, swift and as deadly as the blade flashing in her hand. The blood of kings runs strong in her veins--but her weakling brother wears the crown. She is Bronwyn, a name that strikes fear in the hearts of the depraved courtiers feasting like jackals on the corpse of her father's kingdom. Her brother rules the land, but a ruthless maniac is the puppet master behind the throne. To save her kingdom, Bronwyn must enlist a rebel force of gypsies and giants, peasants and pirates, mountebanks and changeling spies. They are an unlikely assortment of heroes but they are Bronwyn's last hope....

Book American Prison

Download or read book American Prison written by Shane Bauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.

Book Pauper Prisons  Pauper Palaces

Download or read book Pauper Prisons Pauper Palaces written by Paul Carter and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a product of the Pauper Prison, Pauper Palaces (Midlands) (PPPPM) project which has been managed over the last few years by the British Association for Local History. The archival work was undertaken by a group of around 100 local historians across the Midlands who were interested in examining the lives of poor people in the nineteenth century. The main source which the following accounts originate from is the huge poor law union correspondence series of records held at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew. The poor law union correspondence rivals, if not eclipses, the Victorian census as the domestic archival nineteenth century tour de force and provides some of the most detailed accounts of the lives of ordinary English and Welsh men, women and children.