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Ruth Kneppel was pregnant with her daughter Michele when war broke out in Europe in 1939. As the German army and French police closed in on Ruth and her family, they hid in various homes throughout Paris before fleeing south to France's free zone. A woman of incredible courage and defiance, Ruth joined the Resistance and engaged in perilous undercover operations, posing as an Algerian Christian with the nom de guerre 'Malou'. In Malou: French ...

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Ruth Hampel was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1930. Devoted communists, her family moved to Leningrad to participate in the creation of a 'workers paradise'. When her much-loved father disappeared during the Great Purge and her mother was falsely accused of treason, Ruth's life fell into turmoil. Branded a traitor at the age of six, Ruth managed to survive, despite the ongoing threats of Stalinism, Nazism and starvation. In her remarkable memoi...

During his seventeen years in Shanghai, Sam experienced wars, changing regimes, different currencies and a variety of schools that reflected the evolving political landscape. In a world obsessed with conflicting nationalism, his family survived as stateless residents, neither beholden to, nor the responsibility of, any country. They were instead, sustained by their Russian Jewish culture and community. Through Sam's memories of early life ...

Coming Clean is one man's remarkable story of redemption as he struggles to recover from a life-long addiction to heroin. Leonard Ottone's raw and brutal account of growing up in a large migrant family, his introduction to drugs and crime while still a child, and his descent into addiction, reveals the desperation of a life spiralling out of control. Institutionalised from the age of 14 - from juvenile detention to prison and eventually rehab ...