I've decided to randomly start recommending books to read because I thought they were excellent and think they are important if a person wishes to stay informed about the things going on in the world.
Today's book is "Five Years of My Life" by Murat Kurnaz. There's a subtitle, but I don't remember what it is.
The book is a translation from German of one man's wrongful detention in Pakistani and American "secret" prisons, as well as his absolutely luxurious stay at the infamous Guantanamo Bay Naval Resort. He does his best to document what it was like, but like any memior, there are gaps and it's all subject to his memory, which is constructive (just like anyone else). Even if it is exaggerated and some of it is made up, there is truth to what he describes. Too many books and articles have been written and too many stories describe the same things for it to be coincidence. Read it. I finished it within a couple weeks, which never happens.
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