num_pages: 222
description: This book is based on the only eyewitness account. never previously published, of one of the most dramatic and horrifying events of our times. On November 18 1978 914 men, women, and children -- all but a few of them American citizens -- died in a remote south American jungle settlement called Jonestown. Most died by their own hands, in the larges mass suicide in history.
language: English
title: Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown, the Only Eyewitness Account
titlecomplete: Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown, the Only Eyewitness Account
genres: Cults, True Crime, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 25
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company