War Crimes

'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It i...

Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and eth...

The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate ...

From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every countrys experience of the Holocaust was different during and i...

For the first time, journalists who shared details about Nazi crimes from the International Military Tribunal, better known as the Nuremberg Trial,...

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in ...

Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book. Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the t...

This book examines the origins of genocide and mass murder in the everyday conflicts of ordinary people, exacerbated by special interests. We exami...

In myriad ways, each narrators life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilienceand by the struggle of how to share space with settler nation...

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have ...

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have ...

This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long durée. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it in...

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genoc...

A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamousSpeer, He...

An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reichs most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapego...

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genoc...

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asia...

Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of...

Arising seemingly out of nowhere, Armenian terrorist groups in the last two decades have carried out over 200 attacks in some two dozen countries a...

In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as the Troubl...

In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the me...

Ugandas civil war with Joseph Konys Lords Resistance Army has raged since the 1980s, claiming over 100,000 lives and displacing around 1.5 million ...

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military ...

Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the project as ill...

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

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...

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...

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...