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INTERVENTIONS: A LIFE IN WAR AND PEACE
ANNAN, KOFI
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
The first sub-Saharan African national to hold the position of secretary-general, Annan has led an incredible life,
an amazing story in its own right. Annan’s idealism and personal politics were forged in the Ghana independence
movements of his adolescence, when all of Africa seemed to be waking from centuries of imperial slumber.
Schooled in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Europe, Annan ultimately joined the United Nations in Geneva as
the lowest level civil servant in the still young organization. Yet Annan rose rapidly through the ranks, and by the
end of the Cold War he was prominently placed in the rapidly changing department of peacekeeping. As Annan
shows the successes of the United Nations around the world, he also reveals the organization’s missed
opportunities and ongoing challenges—thwarted actions in the Rwanda genocide, continuing violence between
Israelis and Palestinians, the endurance of endemic poverty, and much else. Yet Annan’s great strength in this
book is his ability to embed these tragedies within the context of global politics; demonstrating how, time and
again, the nations of the world have retreated from the UN’s radical mandate. Ultimately, Annan shows readers a
world in which solutions are always available, in which all we lack is the will and courage to see them through.
BIOGRAPHY/CURRENT AFFAIRS 1ST PRINTING 150,000
PENGUIN PRESS 512 PAGES
9781594204203
$38.00 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
INWARD JOURNEY: THE LIFE OF LAWREN HARRIS
KING, JAMES
The first full-length biography of the Group of Seven painter and Canadian icon.
ART/BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 5000 IN CANADA
CORMORANT BOOKS
9781771022064
$39.95 HC
OCTOBER 2012
ISAAC'S ARMY: THE JEWISH RESISTANCE IN OCCUPIED POLAND
BRZEZINSKI, MATTHEW
Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and surviving relatives, Isaac’s Army chronicles the
triumphs and setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its earliest acts of defiance in 1939 to the exodus
to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who
led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the confident and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the Jewish Fighting
Organization; Simha Ratheiser, Isaac’s fifteen-year-old bodyguard, whose boyish good looks and seeming
immunity to danger made him an ideal courier; and Zivia Lubetkin, the warrior queen of the underground who,
upon hearing the first intimations of the Holocaust, declared: “We are going to defend ourselves.” Joined by
allies on the left and right, they survived Gestapo torture chambers, smuggled arms, ran covert printing presses,
opened illegal schools, robbed banks, executed collaborators, and fought in the two largest rebellions of the war.
HISTORY 1ST PRINTING 35,000
RANDOM HOUSE 544 PAGES
9780553807271
$35.00 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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