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Simone Arnold Liebster shares the story of her youth in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France during the World War II era, discussing her life on the family farm before the war, her persecution by the Nazis for refusing to denounce her faith as a Jehovah's Witness, and her attempts to rebuild her life after the war.

Recounts the true story of Joanna al-Askari, a young girl in Saddam Hussein's Iraq who fell in love with a Kurdish freedom fighter and joined the battle for Kurdish independence.

Former actress Silvia Grohs-Martin chronicles the experiences she had living in Holland during World War II.

Barbara Bick describes three of her visits to Afghanistan, which includes her first trip in in 1990 at the age of sixty-five, her return trip in 2001 where she was a guest at an Al Queda compound before the attacks on the United States, and again in 2003 for a women's constitutional convention.

Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.

James Megellas chronicles the experiences he had while serving as an airborne platoon leader for the United States during World War II.

Analyzes the accusations of sorcery and trial of Anna Schmieg--the local miller's wife in Langenburg, Germany--and her daughter in 1672, based on court documents, eyewitness accounts, and an autopsy report.

Former soccer star Lyza, her lover Boat, special investigator Palchikov, poet Antonina Korzinkina, and Yevtushenko himself work to keep Russia's fragile democracy alive in the face of the efforts of hard-line Communists to destroy it. Includes the historical figures of Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, and Yeltsin among the cast of characters.

British agent Paul Chavasse embarks on a desperate mission to Tibet in 1962 to smuggle out brilliant scientist Dr. Karl Hoffner, a man who holds the key to victory in the Cold War.