If human rights are considered the most essential quality of human existence, then this book represents a lifetime devoted to the fight for those rights Ai WeiweiIn three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch conducted investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses and pressured offending governments to stop them.
'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022'Superb' The Times'Engrossing and revelatory' Observer'Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched' New StatesmanA new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocideDo Not Disturb is a dramatic recasting of the modern history of Africa's Great Lakes region, an area blighted by the greatest genocide of the twentieth century.
A leading genocide scholar explores the history of Zionism, Israel s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanity'Essential' BOOKLIST'Anyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and intellectual morass should read it' PANKAJ MISHRAProfessor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War.
Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza.
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "e;unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war"e; (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)'The book we need right now' Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalWhat do we owe the past?
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.
Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes.
'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**A devastating account of China's genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nomineeNury Turkel was born in a 're-education' camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution.
An ethnographic account of the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day TurkeyTemptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Mus (Moush).
Migration ist in aller Munde, und schnell wird vergessen, dass auch viele Deutsche und Osterreicher einst gezwungen waren, ihr Heimatland zu verlassen.
El 7 de octubre de 2023, mientras se banaba con sus amigos en una playa de Gaza, Atef Abu Saif fue sorprendido por un ataque cercano del ejercito israeli.
Uber die dramatische Zuspitzung der Gewaltverhaltnisse in zwei Konzentrationslagern in den letzten Kriegsmonaten und das Dilemma einer unerwartet erfolgreichen Rettungsaktion.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo secreto de hombres fue lanzado tras las lineas enemigas para encender la chispa de la resistencia en la Europa ocupada.
Situada en Alejandria en 1966, el ano previo a la derrota de Egipto y la coalicion arabe en la Guerra de los Seis Dias, Cuando se cierra el telon narra la vida de personajes que luchan por enmendar sus errores y superar los fracasos del pasado.
Echo of Lies is a fictionalized documentary novel by Edgar Rowan that explores the mechanism of hate propaganda through the prism of personal tragedy and historical parallels.
Die Irokesen-Konföderation, auch bekannt als Haudenosaunee oder "Das Volk des Langhauses", steht als ein bemerkenswertes Beispiel für Weisheit, Diplomatie und politische Organisation in der Geschichte Nordamerikas.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide and forever changing the way societies respond to infectious diseases.
