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The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish ...

This book assesses the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavias (ICTY) legacy and examines the conflicting intersection of law and po...

Surviving Hell is a harrowing account of Lieutenant Colonel William Miner, taken prisoner for 39 months after his unit surrendered to the Japanese ...

Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (190997), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known epi...

Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that...

Genocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DANGER AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAL...

Tribute to a Generation highlights the unappreciated yet pivotal role Ambassador F. Haydn Williams played in making the World War II Memorial in Wa...

BECAUSE NOT ALL KRAV MAGA IS THE SAME® Hardcover format includes all photos in FULL COLOR! Israeli Krav Maga is the Israel Defense Force's offic...

BECAUSE NOT ALL KRAV MAGA IS THE SAME® Hardcover format includes all photos in FULL COLOR! This book introduces and codifies big-picture thinking ...

Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the wars commem...

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him. Tho...

USA Best Book Awards Winner - USA Book News Finalist - 2014 Eric Hoffer Awards According to the World Taekwondo Federation, there are over 90,000,0...

During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the luc...

In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologie...

Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the...

Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime exp...

Winner of the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize Beyond Repair? ...

Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime exp...

Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the...

Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented ...

In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in W...

Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimesmass atrocitieshave bee...

Letters of marque might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution. But such conventions are duly covered in the US Const...

Until the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese America...

A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history. - Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the ...

How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?For a term coined just seventy-five years...