Odyssey To Freedom
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Odyssey
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Author : Pablo Betancourt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Odyssey written by Pablo Betancourt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with categories.
Odyssey To Freedom
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Author : George Bizos
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2011-12-02
Odyssey To Freedom written by George Bizos and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In October 1941 a young boy and his father disembarked at Durban harbour from a large liner commissioned into emergency service by the Allies. They were Greek refugees from their German-occupied motherland. They spoke no English. They had little money and no prospects. They were heroes, but no one knew that. Some months earlier, father and son, together with two other Greek men and seven New Zealand soldiers, had set off in an open boat in an attempt to escape the German invaders. For two days and nights, sailing by instinct and the stars, battered by fierce winds, their food stocks running low, their water bottles almost empty, they ploughed across the Mediterranean towards Crete, little knowing that the island was soon to capitulate to the Germans. Fortunately the escapees sailed into an Allied fleet while it was still light and were rescued. Had they encountered the fleet in darkness their fate might have been dire, as, sometimes, in the horrors of war no prisoners were taken – a reality the young boy discovered not many nights later. The boy who stood on the Durban docks, appalled at the sight of Zulu men doing the work of animals by pulling rickshaws, would become one of the leading human-rights lawyers in the country that his father had chosen because the pavements were allegedly paved with gold. The boy was George Bizos. Today George Bizos is a legendary name, renowned throughout the legal profession and beyond. More than that, he is a figure recognised in townships across South Africa. For as an advocate, Bizos is associated with the Treason Trial of the late 1950s; the subsequent Rivonia Trial where his colleague, client and friend Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment; the trial of Bram Fischer; that of the Namibian Toivo ja Toivo; a host of major human-rights trials through the 1970s and 1980s right up to the amnesty hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and, in 2004, with the treason trial of the Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in that country. A consummate lawyer, a self-styled street fighter with a quiet tone of voice and a beguiling smile who, in cross examination, would slice through the evidence of security police and apartheid apologists alike, Bizos haunted the courtrooms of the apartheid regime. For four decades he exposed State lies and hypocrisy, State brutality and murder. In response the State badgered and threatened him, bugged his phone, obstructed his hearings. But the advocate was not to be intimidated. In this compelling and long-awaited autobiography, George Bizos reveals the drama, the heartache and the moments of triumph, the fears and the frustrations of his long career as an advocate. He writes, moreover, about himself and his family, and the domestic moments that made bearable the brutal years. He revels in his return to his beloved Greece, his joy at the Athens Olympic Games and his love of modern Greek poetry. Above all, his is a warm and compassionate account, related by a raconteur of note. It is history told from the inside."
Odyssey To Freedom
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Author : Marcel Back
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Odyssey To Freedom written by Marcel Back and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Odyssey To Freedom
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Author : George Bizos
language : en
Publisher: Struik Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Odyssey To Freedom written by George Bizos and has been published by Struik Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The long-awaited memoir by the world-renowned human rights advocate, friend and lawyer to Nelson Mandela, spanning 80 eventful years
Odyssey To Freedom
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Author : Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche
language : en
Publisher: Jewel Heart
Release Date : 1998
Odyssey To Freedom written by Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche and has been published by Jewel Heart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Freedom Papers
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Author : Rebecca J. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Freedom Papers written by Rebecca J. Scott and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with History categories.
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium. Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.
The Donaldson Odyssey
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Author : Lillian Carlotta Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Donaldson Odyssey written by Lillian Carlotta Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with African Americans categories.
Odyssey To Freedom A Family S Unbroken Spirit Conquers War S Brutalities
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Author : Janina Chung
language : en
Publisher: Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger Advertising
Release Date : 2020-01-12
Odyssey To Freedom A Family S Unbroken Spirit Conquers War S Brutalities written by Janina Chung and has been published by Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger Advertising this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-12 with Fiction categories.
A family's journey of love, faith, betrayal, heartbreaking tragedy and ultimate victory during the reign of Communism and World War II Nazi occupation.
Tiger Man
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Author : Julian Duguid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Tiger Man written by Julian Duguid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Hunting categories.
Anna
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Author : Eric John Brown
language : en
Publisher: Entwistle, Alta. : Magnolia Press
Release Date : 2002
Anna written by Eric John Brown and has been published by Entwistle, Alta. : Magnolia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Canada categories.