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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 700 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
3) The reader
Author
Language
English
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
"A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old
4) The great big book of horrible things: the definitive chronicle of history's 100 worst atrocities
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 669 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually...
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksson (Michael J. Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). Master filmmaker Brian DePalma creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war by following the author's investigation of an arson fire and sharing the stories of civilians who have been directly affected by the conflict.
14) Winter soldier
Publisher
Winterfilm [production company]
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veterans speak about atrocities committed upon Vietnamese soldiers and civilians during their time in the U.S. armed forces in Vietnam. Through testimony given at the Winter Soldier Investigation held by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1971, press conferences, and interviews with individual participants, the film graphically portrays the effect of U.S. government policy and practice, which turned soldiers into animals bent on destruction...
15) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II--an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frenchwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the...
17) Kinyarwanda
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During WWII two pilots, one American and one Japanese, crash on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must let go of their hostility and cooperate in order to survive, but will they?
19) Testimony
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifty, prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court, an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity, he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma...
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