Author:Rich Cohen
When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. Abba, leader of the young people in the ghetto and Rushka and Vitka were his deputies. Together they organised the first underground movement in Europe, mapping the sewers and using the tunnels beneath the city to smuggle food and weapons into and out of the ghetto. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto and led their band of resistance fighters deep into the forests of Poland, where they lived for the remainder of the war. From here, they bombed the occupied city they loved. When the war was over Abba, Vitka and Rushka went to Israel, but they did not forget what they had learned in Vilna and in the forest.
This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism
—— Angela DavisHave the courage to read this book
—— Jean-Paul SartreFanon details the impact of colonialism on the psyches of black people. For the first time, I was able to understand empire as more than just an economic phenomenon, and in turn how much Africa's decolonisation was expected to reverse. Reading it more than 50 years after publication was a visceral confrontation with a legacy that remains a shadow over black people
—— Ore Ogunbiyi , GuardianIn clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, he showed us the internal theatre of racism
—— Deborah Levy , IndependentThe writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon
—— Boston GlobeThis is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial revolution, and as such it is highly important for any Western reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that revolution
—— TimeThe most comprehensive look at the work of these intrepid sailors . . . A celebration of their ingenuity and valor
—— Baltimore SunReads like an adventure novel, but it's all to real
—— Seyour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of CamelotThe veterans of the 'Silent Service' are silent no more
—— John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy , Wall Street Journal