Waco : a survivor's story / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson with Aviva Layton.
Title:
Waco : a survivor's story / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson with Aviva Layton.
ISBN:
9781602865730
Personal Author:
Edition:
Updated and revised edition.
First paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
Physical Description:
xx, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Previously published as: A Place Called Waco.
Contents:
Prologue: this could be the day that I die -- Book I: A sense of community: A galaxy far away -- The man and the music -- Coming to the mountain -- Edging toward belief -- Slipping through the fence -- The withering experience -- Temptations -- On rape, abuse, and guns -- Book II: Prelude to a holocaust: Visions and omens -- Showtime -- Aftershock -- No surrender, no quarter -- Ranch apocalypse -- Book III: Life as a survivor: "Are you comin' to kill me?" -- Half-truths and outright lies -- Ignorant questions -- Afterlife -- Climbing the mountain -- Back to the future -- The double helix -- Epilogue -- Special thanks and acknowledgments -- Appendix: The Mount Carmel Community: The living and the dead -- Index.
Summary:
One of nine survivors of the attack on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 describes how he came to join the religious community and offers an eyewitness account of the tragedy.
Corporate Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn993420657
Availability:
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