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A thousand lives

the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown

1st Free Press hardcover ed.
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This edition was published in by Free Press in New York.

Written in English

307 pages

What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.

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A thousand lives: the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown
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A thousand lives

First published in 2011



Work Description

What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.

A thousand lives

the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

This edition was published in by Free Press in New York.


Edition Description

What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.

Table of Contents

An adventure
Church
Redwood Valley
"Dad"
Edith
Traitors
Exodus
Pioneers
The promised land
Georgetown
Siege
Bullets to kill bumblebees
Runaways
Concern
Control
Release
Drill
Hyacinth
Stanley
Relatives
The Embassy
Control
Escape
Chaos
November
Ryan
End
Bodies
Survivors.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-292) and index.

Other Titles
Untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
289.9
Library of Congress
BP605.P46 S34 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
307

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25161972M
Internet Archive
thousandlivesunt00sche_0
ISBN 10
1416596399, 145162896X
ISBN 13
9781416596394, 9781451628968
LC Control Number
2011012169
OCLC/WorldCat
709673140

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