A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeA Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph, TLS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs'Magisterial' - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Monumental' - Rana Mitter, Times Literary SupplementA landmark history of the postwar trials of Japan's leaders as war criminals, and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world.
War Trials tells the gripping and in-depth true story of a British soldier’s role in the drowning of an Iraqi teenager in May 2003, the devastating investigation and resulting court martial.
THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally on the money - and ripe for this republication' i Newspaper * * * * *It always starts with a small lie.
Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press.
'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child.
"e;Relentless in its narrative fortitude, the memoir Night Train to Odesa is filled with detailed reportage from the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Hasta hoy la justicia argentina tuvo el mérito de investigar los delitos de sangre cometidos durante la última dictadura, pero dejó fuera del radar a los actores económicos que la promovieron, es decir, a las personas, instituciones y empresas que suministraron bienes y servicios al gobierno o que obtuvieron beneficios a cambio de apoyar la ejecución del plan criminal.
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism revealing the complicity of the Vatican and the Swiss government in aiding Nazi war criminals' escape from Europe to Argentina - reissued with a new preface by Philippe Sands and additional materialAs Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany.
Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable.
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS.
"Cafés con el diablo describe algunos abismos del mal entre los que ha transcurrido y aún transcurre nuestra existencia, a los que sólo nos asomamos de forma ocasional y somera en reportajes de televisión y artículos de prensa, cuya brevedad –y, últimamente– escasez no nos permite mantenernos conscientes de su gravedad ni, por tanto, combatirlos.
El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes –Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo– desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio.
As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics.
As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics.
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.
Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave.
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths-and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured by Palestinians isolated in Gaza.
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology.
Eine packende neue Geschichte Russlands – über 500 Jahre Herrschaft und Macht im Kreml, von Iwan dem Schrecklichen bis Wladimir PutinDer Kreml ist das imposante Symbol der russischen Nation.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Guardian First Book award'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' - Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm'Should be compulsory reading' - The GuardianIn 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES'An important book, a superb piece of reporting' OBSERVER'With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making' PHILIP GOUREVITCHWhy do leaders who vow 'never again' repeatedly fail to prevent genocide?
El ingreso al sistema escolar de la poblacion victima del conflicto armado en Colombia, en especial de desmovilizados y desvinculados, supone distintas transiciones, retos y resistencias, relacionadas con la integracion al aula, los procesos de aprendizaje, la reconstruccion de los referentes de la identidad personal y colectiva, el establecimiento de interacciones con sus grupos de pares, docentes y figuras directivas, entre otros.
First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.
El presente libro constituye un hito en la historia del trabajo mancomunado de los investigadores de las Facultades de Derecho de las Universidades de Zaragoza (España) y EAFIT (Colombia) y un paso importante en el esfuerzo común por ahondar en el análisis del conflicto armado que se vive en Colombia, las violaciones de los derechos humanos y el diseño de mecanismos de protección internacional, todo ello con el compromiso de profundizar en la línea de investigación y de aportar un conocimiento que llegue a los distintos a los distintos espacios académicos, instituciones y organizaciones relacionadas con la defensa de los derechos humanos y con la búsqueda de una negociación.
Esta obra no se orienta a analizar el estado del conflicto armado colombiano, sino que parte de la clara conciencia de la realidad nacional en la que la población civil ha quedado cautiva en medio del conflicto y del fuego cruzado entre las partes, sometida al albur de los poderes ilegales que disputan con el poder estatal la organización de la vida cotidiana de la gente en muchas regiones del país.
Esta obra no se orienta a analizar el estado del conflicto armado colombiano, sino que parte de la clara conciencia de la realidad nacional en la que la poblacion civil ha quedado cautiva en medio del conflicto y del fuego cruzado entre las partes, sometida al albur de los poderes ilegales que disputan con el poder estatal la organizacion de la vida cotidiana de la gente en muchas regiones del pais.
