🕊️ Partition Survivors

Testimonies and narratives from those who lived through the violent rupture of national partition, carrying memories of displacement, loss, and resilience across generations.

The Making of Exile

by Nandita Bhavnani • 2014

Sindh's Hindus did not flee a massacre. They were eroded out of their homeland.

4.17

145

📜 Partition Histories 🧳 Forced Migration ⚔️ Communal Violence

The Making of Exile 91%

Sindh's Hindus did not flee a massacre. They were eroded out of their homeland.

by Nandita Bhavnani 2014

4.17

145 ratings

📜 Partition Histories 🧳 Forced Migration ⚔️ Communal Violence

The Upstairs Wife

by Rafia Zakaria • 2015

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

3.78

1k+

🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir

The Upstairs Wife 90%

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

by Rafia Zakaria 2015

3.78

1k+ ratings

🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir

1971

by Anam Zakaria • 2019

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

4.13

215

🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory

1971 90%

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

by Anam Zakaria 2019

4.13

215 ratings

🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory

Train to Pakistan

by Khushwant Singh • 1956

A corpse-filled train turns a peaceful Indian village's Sikh and Muslim neighbors into enemies.

3.94

32k+

🚂 Partition Literature 🦸 Unlikely Hero 💔 Interfaith Love

Train to Pakistan 89%

A corpse-filled train turns a peaceful Indian village's Sikh and Muslim neighbors into enemies.

by Khushwant Singh 1956

3.94

32k+ ratings

🚂 Partition Literature 🦸 Unlikely Hero 💔 Interfaith Love

India Wins Freedom

by Abul Kalam Azad • 1978

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

4.21

1k+

🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism

India Wins Freedom 89%

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

by Abul Kalam Azad 1978

4.21

1k+ ratings

🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism

Kashmir

by Tariq Ali • 2011

A 1947 promise of a vote. Sixty years of soldiers. Now a generation demands freedom with stones.

3.95

618

🧭 Kashmir Conflict 🗳️ South Asian Politics 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

Kashmir 88%

A 1947 promise of a vote. Sixty years of soldiers. Now a generation demands freedom with stones.

by Tariq Ali 2011

3.95

618 ratings

🧭 Kashmir Conflict 🗳️ South Asian Politics 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

The Story of a Life

by Aharon Appelfeld • 1983

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

3.89

921

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

The Story of a Life 88%

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

by Aharon Appelfeld 1983

3.89

921 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

My Friend Anne Frank

by Hannah Pick-Goslar • 2023

Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.

4.66

8k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 📔 Anne Frank 💔 Lost Families

My Friend Anne Frank 88%

Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.

by Hannah Pick-Goslar 2023

4.66

8k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 📔 Anne Frank 💔 Lost Families

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

by Laura Hillman • 2003

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

4.16

6k+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree 88%

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

by Laura Hillman 2003

4.16

6k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors

The Boy on the Wooden Box

by Leon Leyson • 2013

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

4.38

30k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

The Boy on the Wooden Box 88%

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

by Leon Leyson 2013

4.38

30k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

The Pianist from Syria

by Aeham Ahmad • 2017

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

4.27

2k+

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

The Pianist from Syria 88%

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

by Aeham Ahmad 2017

4.27

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

In Pursuit Of Justice

by Rajindar Sachar • 2020

Emergency. Kashmir. Corporate corruption. One Indian judge's lifelong fight for civil liberties.

5.00

📖 Legal Memoir ⚖️ Indian Judiciary ✊ Civil Liberties Activism

In Pursuit Of Justice 88%

Emergency. Kashmir. Corporate corruption. One Indian judge's lifelong fight for civil liberties.

by Rajindar Sachar 2020

5.00

1 ratings

📖 Legal Memoir ⚖️ Indian Judiciary ✊ Civil Liberties Activism

A Brilliant Life

by Rachelle Unreich • 2023

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

4.29

2k+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness

A Brilliant Life 88%

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

by Rachelle Unreich 2023

4.29

2k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness

A Long Way Home

by Saroo Brierley • 2013

Lost as a boy in India, Saroo Brierley spent years searching for home with Google Earth.

4.12

68k+

📖 Adoption Memoir 🔍 Search For Identity 🧒 Childhood Survival

A Long Way Home 88%

Lost as a boy in India, Saroo Brierley spent years searching for home with Google Earth.

by Saroo Brierley 2013

4.12

68k+ ratings

📖 Adoption Memoir 🔍 Search For Identity 🧒 Childhood Survival

The Shadow of the Great Game

by Narendra Singh Sarila • 2006

India's partition was engineered by Britain to secure a Cold War foothold, not just communal strife.

4.16

290

🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🇬🇧 British Imperialism 🗺️ Great Game

The Shadow of the Great Game 88%

India's partition was engineered by Britain to secure a Cold War foothold, not just communal strife.

by Narendra Singh Sarila 2006

4.16

290 ratings

🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🇬🇧 British Imperialism 🗺️ Great Game

After Auschwitz

by Eva Schloss • 2013

Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.

4.32

8k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧱 Camp Survival 🕵️ Life In Hiding

After Auschwitz 88%

Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.

by Eva Schloss 2013

4.32

8k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧱 Camp Survival 🕵️ Life In Hiding

The Happiest Man on Earth

by Eddie Jaku • 2020

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

4.62

134k+

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival

The Happiest Man on Earth 88%

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

by Eddie Jaku 2020

4.62

134k+ ratings

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival

When Broken Glass Floats

by Chanrithy Him • 2000

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

4.18

5k+

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

When Broken Glass Floats 88%

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

by Chanrithy Him 2000

4.18

5k+ ratings

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

Witness to Surrender

by Siddique Salik • 1977

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

3.86

246

🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War

Witness to Surrender 88%

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

by Siddique Salik 1977

3.86

246 ratings

🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War

Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945

by Marie Jalowicz Simon • 2014

She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.

3.80

3k+

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🚩 Nazi Germany 👁️ Hiding In Plain Sight

Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945 Summary

Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945 88%

She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.

by Marie Jalowicz Simon 2014

3.80

3k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🚩 Nazi Germany 👁️ Hiding In Plain Sight

The Struggle for Pakistan

by Ayesha Jalal • 2014

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

3.94

261

🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

The Struggle for Pakistan 87%

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

by Ayesha Jalal 2014

3.94

261 ratings

🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

Savarkar

by Vikram Sampath • 2021

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

4.70

472

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India

Savarkar 87%

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

by Vikram Sampath 2021

4.70

472 ratings

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India

A History of Bangladesh

by Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

4.20

250

🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India

A History of Bangladesh 87%

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

by Willem van Schendel 2009

4.20

250 ratings

🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India

The Bengalis

by Sudeep Chakravarti • 2017

Language bound them; religion and borders broke them: a portrait of 250 million Bengalis.

3.90

215

🐅 Bengali Identity 🗺️ South Asian History ✂️ Partition Of India

The Bengalis 87%

Language bound them; religion and borders broke them: a portrait of 250 million Bengalis.

by Sudeep Chakravarti 2017

3.90

215 ratings

🐅 Bengali Identity 🗺️ South Asian History ✂️ Partition Of India

Tears of the Desert

by Halima Bashir • 2008

A Darfuri doctor escapes genocide and rape, only to land inside the UK's asylum machine.

4.24

4k+

🌍 African Memoir 🕯️ Darfur Genocide 🧳 Refugee Stories

Tears of the Desert 87%

A Darfuri doctor escapes genocide and rape, only to land inside the UK's asylum machine.

by Halima Bashir 2008

4.24

4k+ ratings

🌍 African Memoir 🕯️ Darfur Genocide 🧳 Refugee Stories

I Shall Not Hate

by Izzeldin Abuelaish • 2010

A tank shell kills his daughters. Live on Israeli TV, a Palestinian doctor refuses to hate.

4.32

8k+

🇵🇸 Palestinian Voices 🏕️ Refugee Memoirs 🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

I Shall Not Hate 87%

A tank shell kills his daughters. Live on Israeli TV, a Palestinian doctor refuses to hate.

by Izzeldin Abuelaish 2010

4.32

8k+ ratings

🇵🇸 Palestinian Voices 🏕️ Refugee Memoirs 🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Unfinished

by Priyanka Chopra Jonas • 2021

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

3.68

11k+

🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality

Unfinished 87%

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

by Priyanka Chopra Jonas 2021

3.68

11k+ ratings

🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality

The Drone Eats with Me

by Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

4.40

452

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

The Drone Eats with Me 87%

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

by Atef Abu Saif 2015

4.40

452 ratings

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

Knife

by Salman Rushdie • 2024

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

3.98

29k+

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech

Knife 87%

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

by Salman Rushdie 2024

3.98

29k+ ratings

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech

Measure of a Man

by Martin Greenfield • 2014

He learned needlework in Auschwitz. Every U.S. president since Eisenhower wore the result.

4.18

2k+

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🇺🇸 Immigrant Success 👔 Clothing And Identity

Measure of a Man 87%

He learned needlework in Auschwitz. Every U.S. president since Eisenhower wore the result.

by Martin Greenfield 2014

4.18

2k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🇺🇸 Immigrant Success 👔 Clothing And Identity

Crucible of Terror

by Max Liebster • 2003

He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.

4.69

166

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕊️ Spiritual Resistance

Crucible of Terror 87%

He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.

by Max Liebster 2003

4.69

166 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕊️ Spiritual Resistance

Forty Autumns

by Nina Willner • 2016

One daughter flees East Germany, leaving her family to endure forty years behind the Berlin Wall.

4.37

14k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir 🏠 Divided Family 🏃 Iron Curtain Escape

Forty Autumns 87%

One daughter flees East Germany, leaving her family to endure forty years behind the Berlin Wall.

by Nina Willner 2016

4.37

14k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir 🏠 Divided Family 🏃 Iron Curtain Escape

Independence

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni • 2023

A doctor's three daughters in Bengal seek their own freedoms as India tears itself in two.

4.11

13k+

📚 Partition Fiction 👩‍👩‍👩 Sisterhood Saga 💕 Interfaith Romance

Independence 87%

A doctor's three daughters in Bengal seek their own freedoms as India tears itself in two.

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2023

4.11

13k+ ratings

📚 Partition Fiction 👩‍👩‍👩 Sisterhood Saga 💕 Interfaith Romance

Reham Khan

by Reham Khan • 2018

An abusive first husband. A charismatic second who used black magic and conspired with the first.

2.56

455

🛡️ Domestic Abuse Survival 🎙️ Political Tell-All 🌏 South Asian Women'S Memoirs

Reham Khan 87%

An abusive first husband. A charismatic second who used black magic and conspired with the first.

by Reham Khan 2018

2.56

455 ratings

🛡️ Domestic Abuse Survival 🎙️ Political Tell-All 🌏 South Asian Women'S Memoirs

Roman by Polanski

by Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

4.12

827

🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival

Roman by Polanski 87%

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

by Roman Polański 2007

4.12

827 ratings

🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival

Escape from Saddam

by Lewis Alsamari • 2007

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

4.05

270

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

Escape from Saddam 87%

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

by Lewis Alsamari 2007

4.05

270 ratings

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

First They Killed My Father

by Loung Ung • 2000

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

4.36

55k+

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

First They Killed My Father 87%

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

by Loung Ung 2000

4.36

55k+ ratings

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

Crucible of Terror

by Max Liebster • 2017

Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.

4.90

🕯️ Holocaust Survival ✝️ Faith During Persecution 🌅 Spiritual Transformation

Crucible of Terror 87%

Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.

by Max Liebster 2017

4.90

87 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Survival ✝️ Faith During Persecution 🌅 Spiritual Transformation

The Race of My Life

by Milkha Singh • 2013

A Partition orphan who became India's fastest man. Four steps from Olympic gold, he hesitated.

4.21

1k+

🏃 Track And Field 🇮🇳 Indian Sports 🏅 Olympic Competition

The Race of My Life 87%

A Partition orphan who became India's fastest man. Four steps from Olympic gold, he hesitated.

by Milkha Singh 2013

4.21

1k+ ratings

🏃 Track And Field 🇮🇳 Indian Sports 🏅 Olympic Competition

When the Fireflies Dance

by Aisha Hassan • 2025

Exiled from bonded labor at a Lahore kiln, a boy must steal to free his family.

4.19

4k+

🏚️ Generational Poverty 🏭 Gritty Social Realism 🤝 Found Family

When the Fireflies Dance 87%

Exiled from bonded labor at a Lahore kiln, a boy must steal to free his family.

by Aisha Hassan 2025

4.19

4k+ ratings

🏚️ Generational Poverty 🏭 Gritty Social Realism 🤝 Found Family

Modi, Muslims and Media

by Madhu Purnima Kishwar • 2014

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

3.83

125

🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism

Modi, Muslims and Media 87%

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

by Madhu Purnima Kishwar 2014

3.83

125 ratings

🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism

The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz • 1956

Seven prisoners escape a Soviet gulag. Four thousand miles later, four reach India.

4.24

22k+

🏚️ Soviet Gulags 🔓 Prison Escapes 🏕️ Survival Narratives

The Long Walk 87%

Seven prisoners escape a Soviet gulag. Four thousand miles later, four reach India.

by Slavomir Rawicz 1956

4.24

22k+ ratings

🏚️ Soviet Gulags 🔓 Prison Escapes 🏕️ Survival Narratives

The Latehomecomer

by Kao Kalia Yang • 2008

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

4.18

9k+

🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory

The Latehomecomer 87%

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

by Kao Kalia Yang 2008

4.18

9k+ ratings

🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory

An Autobiography

by Mahatma Gandhi • 1927

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

4.10

75k+

🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence

An Autobiography 87%

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

by Mahatma Gandhi 1927

4.10

75k+ ratings

🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence

Lost Islamic History

by Firas Alkhateeb • 2014

Slaughter, forced conversion, cultural erasure: the violent truth of Islamic rule in India.

4.43

3k+

🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Conquests 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Relations

Lost Islamic History 87%

Slaughter, forced conversion, cultural erasure: the violent truth of Islamic rule in India.

by Firas Alkhateeb 2014

4.43

3k+ ratings

🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Conquests 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Relations

Lajja

by Taslima Nasrin • 1993

A demolished mosque in India turns a Hindu family in Bangladesh into targets overnight.

3.55

6k+

🔥 Communal Violence 💢 Religious Extremism 🏚️ Family Under Siege

Lajja 87%

A demolished mosque in India turns a Hindu family in Bangladesh into targets overnight.

by Taslima Nasrin 1993

3.55

6k+ ratings

🔥 Communal Violence 💢 Religious Extremism 🏚️ Family Under Siege

Mao's America

by Xi Van Fleet • 2023

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

4.42

560

🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels

Mao's America 87%

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

by Xi Van Fleet 2023

4.42

560 ratings

🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels

And Then One Day

by Naseeruddin Shah • 2014

His birth year was a mystery. Bollywood wanted a hero. He gave them an actor instead.

4.02

2k+

🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎭 Acting Memoir

And Then One Day 87%

His birth year was a mystery. Bollywood wanted a hero. He gave them an actor instead.

by Naseeruddin Shah 2014

4.02

2k+ ratings

🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎭 Acting Memoir

Stones Into Schools

by Greg Mortenson • 2009

What actually defeats the Taliban: girls' schools in places helicopters can't reach.

3.85

17k+

🎓 Girls' Education 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 🏥 Humanitarian Work

Stones Into Schools 87%

What actually defeats the Taliban: girls' schools in places helicopters can't reach.

by Greg Mortenson 2009

3.85

17k+ ratings

🎓 Girls' Education 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 🏥 Humanitarian Work

Warsaw Boy

by Andrew Borowiec • 2014

He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.

4.09

180

🇵🇱 Polish History ⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front 🕵️ Resistance Movements

Warsaw Boy 87%

He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.

by Andrew Borowiec 2014

4.09

180 ratings

🇵🇱 Polish History ⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front 🕵️ Resistance Movements

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