War Crimes

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indon...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of comply...

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by...

Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN ...

In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes....

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and...

Reconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examin...

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...

How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.On the evening of June 27, 1918, the L...

The poignant saga of Guatemalas adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigen...

The No. 1 international bestseller, with a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis, who made headlines in 2021 when he kissed Lidia's Auschwitz ident...

'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'...

'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'...

Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to preve...

Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Memories before ...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Short-listed for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Librar...

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...

In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six we...

This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina. The articles in t...

Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentinaa history that includes the Holocau...