The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo

A revelatory and necessary survival memoir of five years of illegal detainment and torture in Guantánamo Bay On September 11, 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to the Americans in the diplomatic lounge at Islamabad airport and spent five and a half years in Guantanamo. There, he was beaten, tortured, humiliated, and very nearly destroyed. But Ahmed did not give in. This very ordinary, Moroccan-born London chef became a leader of men. Known by the authorities as The General, he devised protests and resistance by any means possible. As a result, he spent most of his time in solitary confinement. But then, after all those years, Ahmed was freed, his innocence admitted. This is Ahmed's story. It will make readers rethink what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It will also make readers look anew at courage, survival, justice, and the War on Terror.

Biographies & Memoirs

Errachidi, Ahmed

SLOVO, Gillian

Leaders & Notable People

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Kate Baeier used to run her own investigation agency, but after the death of her lover, Sam, she fled London to become a journalist reporting from the world's hottest trouble spots. Now she is back - although she doesn't intend to stay for long. Until, that is, someone starts threatening her and she is mugged. Hardly anyone knows she is in England, but someone wants her gone. Not the type of woman to be pushed around, Kate starts investigating what lies behind the escalating attacks. Picking up the threads of a case she abandoned five years earlier, Kate risks everything, even her life. Traveling from the bright elegance of Chelsea to the dark violence of Hackney, Kate follows a trail that leads her into the danger zones of her own city, where menace lies behind doors both rich and poor. And now that she has stopped running, she is forced to confront the truth about the past and her life with Sam.

Catnap

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St Martins Pr

This autobiography provides an investigation into the past of Gillian Slovo's family and country. Brought up in exile, Gillian Slovo retains the closest of ties with South Africa. After her father Joe's death in 1995, she travelled back to South Africa to piece together her family's past. As the daughter of two of the most heroic anti-apartheid campaigners (her mother was Ruth First, heroine of the film "A World Apart") it is a story that intersects with much of South Africa's bloodiest history, and tracking down the men who ordered her mother's killing is only one of the painful and intimate secrets that she had to face. Slovo and her family were intimate witnesses of the events in South Africa over the past 30 years and are close friends of Nelson Mandela.

Every Secret Thing

Community & Culture

Little,Brown

Leningrad. 1933. Loyalties, beliefs, love and family ties: all are about to be tested to the limit in a fight to see who will survive one of the most crushing moments the world will ever know. Boris Ivanov, the father who understands politics and pragmatism; his daughter Natasha, a carefree, delightful girl who will be almost crushed because of political compromises; Anton, Boris's oldest friend, who in an uncharacteristic moment saves a skinny little orphan he finds on the Moscow train; Anna, that tough intriguing child. And watching it all is the marvellous Irina. Wry, wise, ironic, Irina understands that simple loyalty to an individual may well be more powerful than blind loyalty to an idea.

The Ice Road

Little,Brown & Company

The daughter of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo tells how, when Nelson Mandela came to power, she returned to her homeland to reclaim her father and find her mother's murderer, only to discover the shocking truth about her parents' lives. 20,000 first printing.

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Little,Brown & Co

A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.

Arts & Literature

Little, Brown Book Group

Riva Cyn flees the pogroms of Russia to make a new life for herself in Johannesburg, and becomes the first remarkable individual in four generations of strong-willed women, whose fates are entwined with that of the Bopape family

Ties of Blood

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

First American edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block.

Death by Analysis

DOUBLEDAY

Private investigator Kate Baeier is hired by wealthy Mrs. Weatherby to watch over her daughter Kate, a spoiled brat and a brilliant musician, and finds herself caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue and mystery

Death Comes Staccato

While successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant returns home to a rural town in South Africa, former deputy Dirk Hendricks is on the way to meet Alex Mpondo, a prisoner he tortured, and soon, the lives of these three people will be connected by the Truth Commission.

Red Dust: A Novel

United States

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo

Catnap

Every Secret Thing

The Ice Road

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Ties of Blood

Death by Analysis

Death Comes Staccato

Red Dust: A Novel