Wojciech Jagielski: 3 books
The Night Wanderers
Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years,...
Towers of Stone
The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men:...
Burning the Grass
At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the great modern narrative nonfiction tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Burning the Grass is a literary masterpiece of true crime based on the April 2010 murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, firebrand leader of the far-right AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging--the Afrikaner Resistance Movement), who...