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Despite the recent growth of interest in international criminal law, in research and practice, the Tokyo International Military Tribunal remains largely neglected.

Lotchin argues that the World War II relocation of Japanese-Americans was motivated by fear of Japan, rather than racism.

I met Marine Sgt.

How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans?

In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'.

International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law.

Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam.

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict.

Michael Caulfield presents accounts of Australian prisoners of war, capturing the Aussie spirit that manages to endure through all.

In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

After completing military service, veterans can have a difficult time finding employment when returning to civilian life.

It is estimated that 20,000 people were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years.

This volume provides an indispensable resource for anyone studying the Holocaust.

It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved.

This study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now.

Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.

On 27 January 1945 the 6th Ranger Battalion and the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit (the Alamo Scouts) began the most dangerous and important mission of their careers to rescue 500 American, British and Dutch prisoners-of-war held at a camp near Cabanatuan.

An innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany and how war experiences and memories were transformed along political lines.

"e;I thought I’d seen every angle on the history of American whiskey.

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Churchs role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliationFrom April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG).

Features assignments and exercises to meet the changing needsof mental health professionals The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode.

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

During the last two decades, the infrastructure of the U.

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred.

"e;The VA is not your loving Uncle Sam who opens his wallet and says, 'Here you are, nephew-a $1,000 check per month for the rest of your life.

How do combat veterans and their loved ones bridge the divide that war, by its very nature, creates between them?

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution.

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

The engrossing account of one of World War II's legendary figures.

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars around the globe.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.

Surviving Hell is a harrowing account of Lieutenant Colonel William Miner, taken prisoner for 39 months after his unit surrendered to the Japanese on the island of Cebu, Philippines, during World War II.

Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from “perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review).

Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics.

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him.

This book addresses the inadequacies of just war theory and international law regarding civilian rights, developing new principles of individual restorative justice.

The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

In 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs committed to ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015.

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "e;forever war"e;-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.

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

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.

Carl Holmstrom's superb artwork depicts life as a 'kriegie' in a unique manner.

Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide?

The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of five hundred or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply divided over a controversial war.