Political Oppression & Persecution

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

The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of E...

Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achi...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalins dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.  In this compelli...

'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded,...

The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination o...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1975 gave birth to a terrifying new order. By 1979, when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia, up to two million peo...

South Africas governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has undergone dramatic changes over the last thirty years. Historically a hotbe...

In its comprehensive analysis of a wide range of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and Western languages, this authoritative work stand...

The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling auth...

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and...

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular ...

The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of member...

In this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the ...

Now a major documentary film starring Billy BraggIn the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political en...

_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story...

From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making exp...

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China...

A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times'Chilling... Horri...

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence. Prohibiting torture will not end it. In Understanding Torture, John T. Parry expl...

Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies....

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative worki...

The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazi...

Vladimir Pereverzin's Kafkaesque story is vividly told in this skilful translation of his shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately upliftin...

Intoxicating Manchuria reveals how the powerful alcohol and opium industries in Northeast China were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, ...

For the first time in one place, the reader will see all the likely conspirators revealed.The Warren Commission and the FBI agreed that President J...

My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice! The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregor...

My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice! The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregor...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, A...

The Republic of Sudan's former Culture Minister and a leading architect in the movement to gain independence for South Sudan, Bona Malwal, provides...

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the m...

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a...

The frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account...

Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile.This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of ...

As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khm...

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without...

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revuls...

Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long histo...

The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide, the massacre in Bosn...

¡Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the School of the Americas (also known ...

How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persis...