imprisonment

Autobiographical reminiscences of the Indian spy.

Examines the events of February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela, a leader in the fight for equal rights in South Africa, was freed from prison after twenty-seven years, marking the symbolic end to apartheid, and looks at the reasons why Mandela was jailed, and the reaction of the world community to his release.

"Examines the life of Italian explorer Marco Polo, including a childhood in Venice, his travels in China and the Mongol empire, his service to Kublai Khan, and his imprisonment in Genoa"--Provided by publisher.

Commemorates the victims, survivors, and oppressors remembered by the author during his time in Auschwitz.

Tony Le Tissier, the final governor of Spandau Prison in Western Berlin, describes the confinement and eventual death of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hilter's Deputy and the last of the prisoners to be held at Spandau.

Re-creates the twelfth-century kidnapping and ransom of Richard the Lionheart, who was captured while trying to return to his home after the Third Crusade.

A biography of the Black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa, told in the context of the history of his country.

Roxana Saberi chronicles her experiences as an Iranian-American journalist who was accused of espionage and imprisoned while she was working in Iran in 2009, and also discusses the political tensions within the Middle Eastern nation.

The author's account of his life in San Quentin State Prison in California where he has lived in a small cell on death row for sixteen years because of a murder conviction.