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Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.

From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.

Puyi from the Forbidden City to a Beijing garden, shot inside the real palace.

Michelle Obama from the South Side of Chicago to the White House.

Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.