The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was a collective effort involving hundreds of people from all over the world, most of them never having met in person. Inspired by the Bertrand Russell Tribunal of the Vietnam War era, WTI aimed to...
Atrocities
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Author:Gürsoy Sökmen, Müge, Roy, Arundhati, Falk, RichardSummary: -
Author:Starritt, AlexanderSummary:This novel offers a new point of entry to examine one of the greatest evils ever to face humanity. In his years fighting the Russians and attempting afterward to survive the Gulag, Meissner recounts a life lived in perseverance and...
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Author:Murray, Scott W.Summary:Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how...
- Author:Pilkington, RichardSummary:
In 1971, authorities in Islamabad perpetrated mass atrocities in East Pakistan. How did the North Atlantic powers - the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada - respond? The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores decision-making...
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Author:Rajchman, ChilSummary:Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.
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Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks...
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Author:Harrison, FrancesSummary:"An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone." — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009...
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Author:Sontag, SusanSummary:Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception...
- Author:Heaton, Colin D.Summary:
Occupation and Insurgency details German policies toward civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941–1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war. The results of these policies illustrate how an...
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Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and...
- Author:Kavungu, AristoteSummary:
Hanté par le souvenir de son père emprisonné et torturé au Congo, Emmanuel, jeune étudiant en lettres modernes à Paris, trouve par hasard le portefeuille d'un certain Georges Boudarel... Serait-ce LE George Boudarel,...
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and...
- Author:Shannon, LisaSummary:
Human rights activist Lisa Shannon weaves together the stories of one family's tragic encounters with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo with tales from the family's rich and vibrant history. These...
- Author:Rever, JudiSummary:
A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...
- Author:Rees, LaurenceSummary:
Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has pieced...
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Author:Combres, ElisabethSummary:IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection. Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow...
- Author:Goodman, AmySummary:
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much,...
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Author:Setterington, KenSummary:A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the...
- Author:Cameron, SharonSummary:
In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than...
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Author:Frederick, JimSummary:This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment-a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat...
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