A ManSaved from execution through the intervention of world leaders, Allesandro Panagoulis, an implacable Greek freedom fighter, endures years of imprisionment and torture before regaining his freedom and resuming his war against corrupt government leaders |
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User Review - Miguelnunonave - LibraryThingA gift from a French penpal, the first "brutal" book I read (in my 20's). With Portugal itself coming out of an almost 50-years dictatorship in 1974, I could easily relate to the protagonist's ... Read full review
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| Title | A Man |
| Author | Oriana Fallaci |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671252410, 9780671252410 |
| Length | 463 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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