War Crimes

As shown by the trials of Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, the large-scale and systematic commission of international crimes ...

From 1933 during the Nazi era when Hitler refashioned the German judicial system in line with his oppressive regime, many crimes became capital off...

November, 1945. The war is over, Hitler is dead, and Allied Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke receives his most challenging assignment: to go to Nurember...

Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide examines why and how children were mistreated during genocides in the twentieth and twent...

This volume documents the Sudanese government's campaign of genocidal attacks and forced starvation against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the...

The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US...

The Rwandan Genocide began on 6 April 1994, when a plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down over Kigali. This sparked one hundred...

''Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt'' - Sunday Times''...

In war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Husseins regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction A devastating indictment SUNDAY TIMES An impo...

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the U...

Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa-in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling condit...

Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation dur...

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubledignored, appropriated, and obfuscatedthroughout Eastern Europe, e...

In this powerful memoir, Tasoula Hadjitofi reveals her perilous journey orchestrating The Munich Case -one of the largest European art trafficking...

On 21 November 1945, 21 Nazi leaders stood in the dock in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg at the beginning of the first of 12 trials. Eleven day...

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That''s how you stop noticing the bigger...

The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and co...

Founded in 2000, the German Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in histor...

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Ameri...

In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied pow...

What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political o...

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never...

The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of th...

This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the inhuman organisation which so ter...

More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Th...

The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence presents completely original...

The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence presents completely original...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...