War crimes Books

On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired bullets into college students in a non-violent demonstration at Kent State University.  They were protesting the Vietnam War and Cambodia Campaign of illegal bombing by the United States Government and...

In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national...

This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of...

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...

Geopolitics is an increasingly important tool to understand national and international relations. This book unravels how organized crime is not just a marginal problem but part of a bigger geopolitical and asymmetrical warfare strategy. It seeks to...

The Present Relations of Church and State in England: In Accordance with the Teachings of Political Science is a book written by George Guerard Lawrence in 1867. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the Church of England...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes.

This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or "forgotten" altogether.

Kakizaki re-examines the real image of the Thai-Japanese alliance during World War II by focusing on the incidents and accidents occurred by the passage or stationing of the Japanese army in Thailand.

While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it.

In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. Thanks to massive deception and self-deception by media...

From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work...

This book comprehensively studies the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have...

This is the shocking and inspirational memoir of a boy who survived the genocide against the Tutsi. When he was seven years old Hyppolite lost many members of his extended family and witnessed the murder of his beloved father.  Born in a mud hut...

The Zbaraz Memorial BookYears ago, a small group of people, émigrés from Zbarazh, had the idea of establishing a memorial for this ancient community, whose generations and influence spread beyond its limited borders. They wanted to...

Jews first settled in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) after its foundation in 1778, and in 1804 the town was included in the Pale of Settlement. The community numbered 376 in 1805 and 1,699 in 1847. With the growth of the city in the second half of the 19th...

This volume explores the roots and centennial development of radical Islam in the Balkans since the rise of early Muslim fundamentalists in the Muslim world in the early 20th century. It also follows current militant Muslim movements, which have grown in...

In 1984, the Sikh community - a minority amidst the Hindu majority that dominates the Indian nation-state - faced the most traumatizing of events for any group - complete annihilation. Since its inception, the fundamental Sikh ideas of freedom and...

Chhuong So was born in 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia into a family of two parents, a grandmother, three sisters, and a brother. His family's lives changed drastically in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge invaded Cambodia.Instead of going to school, the Khmer...

The Yizkor Book captures the history of Zinkov in good times and bad, of vibrant life in the town, and of the efforts by some to make aliyah to Israel or to depart for the west. Describing the living town of Zinkov - however briefly - brings into focus...

Dies ist ungekürzte Fassung Mein Kampf ist eine politisch-ideologische Programmschrift Adolf Hitlers. Sie erschien in zwei Teilen. Hitler stellte darin seinen Werdegang zum Politiker und seine Weltanschauung dar. Das Buch ist weder eine...

War is inflicting terrible suffering on the cities in which Ukrainians live, love, work, and raise families. Wartime destruction, injuries, and death have too little diminished despite improvements in weapons technology. By examining the cases of Tokyo,...

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of...

¿Te gustaría sumergirte en el pasado oscuro de la humanidad? ¿Aquellos sucesos que quisiéramos que nunca hubiesen existido pero siguen presentes? Pensabas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial ¿no es así? Entonces sigue leyendo..."Lo que se ha hecho no se puede...

Author, mainly of essays, texts of conscience and reflections on social issues, Piotr Plauszewski is originally from Kamianets-Podilskyi in Ukraine. He lives and writes in France. This is a translation of his work to make it...

Singing out of tune, revolution and angerDear reader:You must read this book before they issue a decree to shed my bloodThey are poems that break everything and rebel against everythingA collection of my revolutionary and out-of-the-ordinary poetic...

Nel corso dell'aggressione all'Abissinia del 1935-36, la Regia Aeronautica, in palese violazione del diritto internazionale, ha bombardato quasi tutti gli ospedali da campo della Croce Rossa impegnati nel difficile intervento umanitario in quella parte...

This is the English translation of the Memorial(Yizkor) book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Smorgon now in Belarus.This book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life of the Jewish community of Smorgon before the Shoah and eye- witness...

This work explores issues of forgiveness and reconciliation in countries that had experienced political conflicts, civil war, and even genocide. It attempts to move beyond mere discussion by examining case studies and the initiatives taken in dialogue...

Since the end of the Bosnia War in 1995, a tradition was embraced by the West of vilifying the Serbs as the villains, and the Muslims as their victims.This necessitated the military intervention of the U.S. and NATO on the Muslim side, which caused an...

This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden-a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of...

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¿Te has preguntado quiénes son los personajes que han causado más estragos o sufrimiento a lo largo de la historia? ¿Te intriga saber qué es lo que los llevó al punto de cometer actos atroces? ¿Qué hay de los retrocesos históricos que han venido de la...

¿Te has preguntado quiénes son los personajes que han causado más estragos o sufrimiento a lo largo de la historia? ¿Te intriga saber qué es lo que los llevó al punto de cometer actos atroces? ¿Qué hay de los retrocesos históricos que han venido de la...

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide. It will include in its exploration critical and cultural victimologies...

The Spanish Civil War that began 17 July 1936 with Franco’s military coup, didnot end with the defeat of the supporters of the legal government 1 April 1939.From the moment the first shot was fired, the military insurgents embarked on awave of...

This is the English translation of the memorial book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Turobin, Poland.This book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life of the Jewish community of Turobin before the Shoah and eye- witness accounts of...

Jews of Kaiserstrasse vividly details the fate of the Jewish residents of single street in Mainz, Germany from 1939-45. This book is the culmination of Michael Phillips' meticulous research into the lives of approximately 300 individuals that at one...

From Volyn To Kherson, tells the stories of hardship and suffering and bewilderment experienced by the people of Ukraine in the early weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion and war.The collection draws on news reports and social media postings during the...

In "Der Völkermord in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo: Die vergessene Tragödie ans Licht bringen" werden endlich die unsagbaren Schrecken eines der verheerendsten und am meisten übersehenen Konflikte der modernen Geschichte ans Licht gebracht. Dieses...

En El genocidio en la República Democrática del Congo: Desvelando la tragedia olvidada, por fin salen a la luz los horrores inconfesables de uno de los conflictos más devastadores y pasados por alto de la historia moderna. Este libro de gran alcance y...

Have you ever wondered how a single event can change the course of history? Assassinations and assassinations have shaped politics, unleashed wars, brought down empires, and sometimes caused irreversible social changes. If you are interested in...

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international...