Sands, Philippe
Summary: "A ... personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SANBalakian, Peter
Summary: In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 BalDestexhe, Alain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.571 DESSjursen, Daniel A.
Summary: A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SJUAkçam, Taner
Contents: The Ottoman state and its non-Muslim populations -- The Union and progress era -- Turkish nationalism -- What led to the decision for genocide? -- The decision and its aftermath -- The question of punishing the "Turk" -- Ottoman government initiatives -- The Turkish national movement's position on the genocide -- The final phase of the trials -- Why the postwar trials failed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 AKCShort, Philip.
Summary: A portrait of the Cambodian despot whose rule saw the deaths of one-fifth of the country's population documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into radical egalitarianism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.6042 SHOToumani, Meline.
Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOUKidder, Tracy.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KIDKinzer, Stephen.
Contents: You can't just pretend nothing happened -- Elegant golden-red beauties -- That's why I survived -- A glass of milk -- Devastation -- Creatures from another world -- We just didn't get it -- This is a coup -- Madam, they're killing my people -- What a farce -- Something really fills up in your mind -- Rwanda doesn't matter -- The tricky part -- When you're not serious, you can't be correct --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.571 KINPower, Samantha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.663 POWBass, Gary Jonathan
Summary: A full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India, illegally supplied weapons used in massacres and embraced military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades. By the author of Freedom's Battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BASKayihura, Edouard
Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAYParis, Erna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 PARApplebaum, Anne
Summary: "In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 APPChurchill, Ward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 CHUPeterson, Scott.
Summary: "As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother, he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse that has had an impact far beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.329 PETTierney, Patrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981.1 TIEAmrith, Sunil
Summary: In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DALKoonz, Claudia.
Summary: Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II -- Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.083 KOOSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024