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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

by Iris Chang

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered--a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written what will surely be the definitive history of this... (more)

S.: A Novel about the Balkans

by Slavenka Drakulic

Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child-one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian... (more)

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

by Clea Koff

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff’s grueling investigations... (more)

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

by Vincent Bugliosi

Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder , Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers... (more)

Garcia's Heart: A Novel

by Liam Durcan

In this searing debut novel, neurologist Patrick Lazerenko travels to The Hague to witness the war crimes trial of his mentor, Hernan García, a Honduran doctor accused of involvement in torture. Discovered in Montreal years later, García has been extradited to the famous criminal court, supported only by his family and an advocacy group whose motives seem questionable at best. At the trial, Patrick encounters the... (more)

The Dark Side

The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

by Jane Mayer

A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser... (more)

A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein (The Past in the Present)

A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein (The Past in the Present)

by John Laughland

This is a formidable and well-documented counterblast to a developing modern orthodoxy, expressing a point of view that many readers will not even have suspected existed, let alone read - Anthony Daniels, Spectator. A useful and controversial contribution to the debate about victor's justice, and a valuable warning that international war crimes tribunals need to operate with precision and care - Jonathan Steele,... (more)

How Does Law Protect in War? Cases, Documents and Teaching Materials on Contemporary Practice in International Humanitarian LawAntoine A. Bouvier, Laura Olson, Nicolas A. Dupic, Lina Milner Marco Sassoli

How Does Law Protect in War? Cases, Documents and Teaching Materials on Contemporary Practice in International Humanitarian Law

by Antoine A. Bouvier, Laura Olson, Nicolas A. Dupic, Lina Milner Marco Sassoli

First book of its kind in the field of International Humanitarian Law. Part I outlines the various issues. Part II presents and analyzes 193 case studies. Part III provides teaching outlines for professors who are willing to set up a course to introduce International Humanitarian Law.

George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes

George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes

by Michael Haas

Eminent jurists, professional legal organizations, and human rights monitors in this country and around the world have declared that President George W. Bush may be prosecuted as a war criminal when he leaves office for his overt and systematic violations of such international law as the Geneva and Hague Conventions and such US law as the War Crimes Act, the Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws. George W.... (more)

THE KNIGHTS OF BUSHIDO. A Short History of Japanese War Crimes.

THE KNIGHTS OF BUSHIDO. A Short History of Japanese War Crimes.

by Lord Of Liverpool Russell

This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes, a bestseller in its time but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners, and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This carefully constructed history charts this brutal swath of destruction,... (more)

Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

by Pratap Chatterjee

Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and... (more)

SCHINDLER'S LISTThomas Keneally

SCHINDLER'S LIST

by Thomas Keneally

Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars

by Robert V. Remini

The expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent to the Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River is one of the most notorious events in U.S. history and the single most controversial aspect of Andrew Jackson's presidency. Preeminent Jacksonian scholar Robert Remini now provides a thoughtful analysis of the entire story of Jackson's wars against the Indians, from his first battles with... (more)

The arms of Krupp, 1587-1968

by William Manchester

A masterwork of history-restored to print and made available for the first time in trade paperback. In this massive, compellingly readable book, America's preeminent biographer/historian brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that developed the world's most technologically advanced weapons (from cannons to submarines to anti-aircraft guns); provided arms to generations of German... (more)

THE GERMAN DICTATORSHIP, THE ORIGINS, STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISMKarl Dietrich; Gay, Peter (intro); Steinberg, Jean (translator) Bracher

THE GERMAN DICTATORSHIP, THE ORIGINS, STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM

by Karl Dietrich; Gay, Peter (intro); Steinberg, Jean (translator) Bracher

Working for KBR in Iraq: An Exercise of Frustration

Working for KBR in Iraq: An Exercise of Frustration

by Rick D. Cleland

Incident on Hill 192Daniel Lang

Incident on Hill 192

by Daniel Lang

The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945Gerald Reitlinger

The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945

by Gerald Reitlinger

In the Name of the Volk: Political Justice in Hitler's GermanyH. W. Koch

In the Name of the Volk: Political Justice in Hitler's Germany

by H. W. Koch

Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific

Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific

by Gavan Daws

Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surrviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account of the experiences of the Allied POWs of World War II. The Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners, and one in four died the hands of their captors. Here Daws reveals the survivors' haunting experiences, from the atrocities perpetrated during the Bataan... (more)

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