Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa MARK MATHABANE and Inc. Blackstone Audio
The classic story of life in apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation, for Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra w...
Klaas Kloeten His Story Klaas Kloeten
Born before the Depression in the Netherlands, a teenager when WWII began, a soldier in Indonesia in his twenties and an immigrant to New Zealand in the 1950’s with his bride to be. Through his diaries and letters home, Klaas gives us insight into life from his perspective within the context of the political turmoil of the time. Having been written in Dutch, Klaas set about translating these memories into English, a lengthy process spanning over 20 years until shortly before his death in 2014.**
Kristallnacht: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany’s Most Notorious Pogrom Charles River Editors
Includes pictures Includes accounts of Kristallnacht written by eyewitnesses Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents “It did not take long before the first heavy grey stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many coloured windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heavy dark clouds, the little synagogue was but a heap of stone, broken glass and smashed-up woodwork.” – Eric Lucas’ description of the destruction of a synagogue during Kristallnacht On the 40th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Germany’s night of broken glass, then chancellor of Germany Helmut Schmidt spoke of its legacy, “The German night, whose observance after the passage of forty yea...
