Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Thea Halo
Tags: history memoir turkey kurds armenians greeks
Description: This memoir of surviving a death march in the early 1900s in Turkey is both horrifying and...
2007-05-14
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Michael Korda
Description: Korda provides a brisk account of Hungarian history leading up to the 1956 Revolution, before...
2006-11-12
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edith Grossman
Tags: history memoir journalism literature
Description: The first volume of Marquez's memoirs is astonishing: passionate, crammed with stories...
2006-11-03
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue
Tags: history iran memoir journalism
Description: A great look inside Iran, it's people and recent history. De Bellaigue's first-person...
2006-10-03
& 4 users
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Tags: memoir literature turkey
Description: Pamuk explores how his past and identity are tied in with Istanbul in an engaging memoir, laced...
2006-07-20
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Nicholas Gage
Tags: history memoir greece civil_war
Description: Remarkable, chilling, saddening and, finally, uplifting.
2006-05-15
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Isabel Allende
Description: Delightful. Witty, warm memoir that explores Chile through Allende's memories.
2006-04-26
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Nega Mezlekia
Tags: history memoir africa ethiopia
Description: A moving, harrowing story leavened with Mezlekia's unquenchable sense of humour and irony....
2006-04-06
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: John Phillip Santos
Description: Wonderful, touching and magical.
2006-03-21
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: William Saroyan
Description: A memoir in the form of a series of delightfully...
2006-02-05
