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Description edit
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human... read more
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- Dallaire
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- Bob Dole
- Proxmire
- Hitler
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- Bushnell
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- Mladic
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- Krstic
- Eagleburger
- Raphael Lemkin
- Carter
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- Hooper
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- Johnson
- Jack Anderson
- Rawson
- William Safire
- Lake
- Pell
- Mujawamariya
- Elaine Sciolino
- Kissinger
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- Albright
- Lon Nol
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Bosnia
- Iraq
- Cambodia
- Rwanda
- Srebrenica
- Kosovo
- Washington Post
- New York
- Vietnam
- Europe
- America
- Iran
- Turkey
- White House
- Serbia
- Yugoslavia
- Sarajevo
- Germany
- Balkans
- Baghdad
- London
- Somalia
- Nuremberg
- Holocaust
- Croatia
- Capitol Hill
- France
- Kigali
- Phnom Penh
- Arusha
- Halabja
- China
- Africa
- Geneva
- Poland
- Belgrade
- Middle East Watch
- Paris
- Thailand
- Zepa
- Soviet Union
- Auschwitz
- Britain
- Burundi
- Dayton
- The Hague
First Sentence edit
On March 14, 1921, on a damp day in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, a twenty-four-year-old Armenian crept up behind a man in a heavy gray overcoat swinging his cane.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Samantha Power (Author)
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (2003: Genreal Nonfiction)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2003)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2002: General Nonfiction, #1)
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 304.66309
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › International › Relations
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security › International Security
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › History › World › Jewish › Holocaust
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Violence in Society
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