"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadžić, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations...

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide...

Una historia real está forjada también por sus hechos tardíos, las astillas desprendidas del cuerpo mayor de acontecimientos. Si la política que surge de los hechos de armas de los años 70 inventó su estilo, sus procedimientos y sus percepciones éticas frente a la vida y la muerte, y todo ello resulta hoy muy conocido, el resplandor rezagado de los grupos armados que actuaron fugazmente una década y media después, luego de la caída del régimen...

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Cormac Ó Gráda is professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His books include Famine: A Short History and Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (both Princeton). New perspectives on the history of famine-and the possibility of a famine-free world Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free...

On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family -- sealing her fate in a way she never could...

It follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Forced from his home in Mardin, Nazareth gets word that his daughters may still be alive and he travels the globe in search for them. Over the years, his odyssey takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts to Havana and finally to the barren prairies of North Dakota.

No crime in the twentieth century has so deeply shocked mankind as the Holocaust. And none has so stubbornly resisted every attempt to explain it. More than six million people were murdered, and countless more endured horrific suffering. Guido Knopp's disturbing account is the most complete history of the Holocaust to date. It reveals the appalling truth using the most recent historical research, including minutes of daily briefings by Joseph Goebbels,...

On July 18, 1994, the AMIA building in Buenos Aires was decimated by an explosion, which killed 85 people and injured over 400 more. This terrorist attack was made against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, the most influential Jewish philanthropic organization in Argentina. Appearances are often deceiving, and while it appeared that the Argentine government was launching a thorough investigation, the reality was that a government-sponsored smokescreen...

¿Qué hacer frente a un hecho tan aberrante como un genocidio cuando sus perpetradores se empecinan en negarlo? ¿Cómo difundir una verdad que ha sido ocultada premeditadamente? El Genocidio Armenio es el primer genocidio sistemático del siglo XX. Fue perpetrado por el Estado turco entre 1915 y 1923, y dejó un saldo de más de un millón y medio de armenios asesinados. Tanto su planificación como su ejecución la transforman en un hito histórico...