Tag: Prisoner

Free Download Margarete Buber-Neumann, "Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler"
English | ISBN: 1845951026 | 2008 | 360 pages | PDF | 21 MB
An astonishing account (and the only we have) of one woman’s experience of labour camps under Stalin and Hitler

Free Download Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT13KZ71 | 2024 | 14 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Barry Werth
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years. John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the young CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth. But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences. Washington invented a fictitious cover story and stood by it through four Administrations.

Free Download Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. by Nicola Tallis
English | February 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 178929519X | 398 pages | True EPUB | 9.50 MB
Elizabeth I is one of England’s most famous monarchs, whose story as the ‘Virgin Queen’ is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII’s younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain future.

Free Download Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War by Barry Werth
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1501153978 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 4.17 MB
The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.

Free Download Jere Van Dyk, "Captive: my time as a prisoner of the Taliban"
English | 2010 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 080508827X, 0312573421 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
An American reporter’s chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man’s-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Free Download Understanding Prisoner Victimisation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031543491 | 201 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society. However, while in prison, they often get victimised themselves. Research has demonstrated that prisons tend to be unsafe environments where various forms of victimisation take place. These forms of victimisation often go unnoticed and usually do not attract much interest from policymakers or society at large: prisoners are, indeed, far from ‘ideal victims’. This book is devoted to understanding prisoner victimisation, in particular from a European perspective. Chapters in this volume focus on recent empirical work in a number of European countries (Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands). These chapters are complemented with a series of reflections from a conceptual, methodological and human rights perspective.

Free Download Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004142767 | 2024 | 12 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Nicola Tallis
Narrator: Helen Keeley

Free Download Putin’s Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine (Audiobook)
English | July 20, 2023 | ASIN: B0C3M9C2P2 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 54m | 261 MB
Author: Aiden Aslin, John Sweeney | Narrator: Paul Slack
Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.
Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began.

Free Download Bob Harris, "Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!"
English | 2006 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0307339564 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
A.: This is the story of a working-class guy from Ohio with little real knowledge of Ambidextrous Presidents, Things Made from Rubber, and hundreds of other categories, but who nonetheless plunges so far into cramming for Jeopardy! that it changes his relationships, bends his worldview, and literally leads him to the ends of the earth, trying to understand it all.

Free Download William Poundstone, Rich Miller (Narrator), "Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3Q5ZWB | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:56:00 | 310 MB
Should you watch public television without pledging? Exceed the posted speed limit? Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the "prisoner’s dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner’s dilemma one of the great unifying concepts of science. Watching poker players bluff inspired John von Neumann to construct game theory, a mathematical study of conflict and deception. Game theory was readily embraced at the RAND Corporation, the archetypical think tank charged with formulating military strategy for the atomic age, and in 1950 two RAND scientists made a momentous discovery.
Called the "prisoner’s dilemma," it is a disturbing and mind-bending game where two or more people may betray the common good for individual gain. The prisoner’s dilemma quickly became a popular allegory of the nuclear arms race. Intellectuals such as von Neumann joined military and political leaders in rallying to the "preventive war" movement, which advocated a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. Though the Truman administration rejected preventive war the US entered into an arms race with the Soviets and game theory developed into a controversial tool of public policy-alternately accused of justifying arms races and touted as the only hope of preventing them.