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It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany.

Retiring or being discharged from the military is one of the most trying times for service members.

Berichte über schwere Gewalttaten auf den Titelseiten der Tageszeitungen zeichnen das finstere Bild eines scheinbar unaufhaltbaren Anstiegs der Gewaltkriminalität in Deutschland.

This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

Finalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsQuite simply, without engineers the U.

"e;In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men.

This report examines Russia's growing use of private military companies (PMCs) to increase its influence through irregular means.

Hundreds of young Americans from the town of Stamford, Connecticut, fought in the Vietnam War.

Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing sweeping new benefits for servicemen and women.

Cyber Mercenaries explores how and why states use hackers as proxies to project power through cyberspace.

Explores Britain''s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?

An account of the mass genocide of French Jews under the authority of Alois Bruenner, centering on the plight of two French Jewish families.

A shocking expose of the terrible secrets at the heart of the Pitcairn Island community - a tale of systematic child abuse and rape which stretches back over 40 years.

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In the hills of eastern Bosnia sits the small town of Srebrenica--once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War.

This timely, well-organized, and practical guide for the war fighter offers the collaborative contributions of dedicated military and civilian experts.

As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived.

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.

Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own.

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How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel.

Despite considerable progress in research and practice in the constructive transformation of intractable conflicts beginning in the 1970s, many terribly destructive conflicts have recently erupted.

International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules is a comprehensive study of international criminal proceedings written by over forty leading experts in the field.

Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware.

Highlights the severity of the Civil War''s psychological aftereffects for veterans of the Union army.

Marchak departs significantly from mainstream explanations of genocide, rejecting racism as a fundamental cause and disputing a wide range of other explanations that cite racist and religious ideologies, perception of threat, authoritarianism, and unique historical circumstances as primary causes.

An insight to the often unseen civilian life in a modern war zone.

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country's experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II.

A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme mass violence.

At the onset of the Second World War, Frank Pleszak's father MikoAaj, aged nineteen, was forcibly removed from his family in Poland by the Russian secret police and exiled to the harshest of the Siberian labour camps, the dreaded Soviet gulags of Kolyma.

In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up.

In this volume, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression.

Uyghurs are descendants of Turkic peoples, currently facing genocide committed against them in their homeland, East Turkistan.

The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning.

International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules is a comprehensive study of international criminal proceedings written by over forty leading experts in the field.

This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War.

El Alamein, Britain's victory in the deserts of North Africa in 1942, was the first major reversal of fortunes for Hitler's Third Reich.

As international criminal courts and tribunals have proliferated and international criminal law is increasingly seen as a key tool for bringing the world's worst perpetrators to account, the controversies surrounding the international trials of war criminals have grown.

Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance.

This Element considers how religions, which propagate peace, can end up promoting violence against innocent civilians through terrorist acts.

Would you say your phone is safe, or your computer?

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

The question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing.