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1) 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) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 199 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable period of reconstruction. Driven by a governmental programme of unity and reconciliation, the last twenty-five years have seen significant changes at national, community, and individual levels. This book gathers previously unpublished testimonies from individuals who lived through the genocide. These are the voices of those who experienced one of the most horrific events...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 131 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Noto analyzes My Lai and Son Thang against the backdrop of a flawed military justice system and an arrogant and inept civilian and military leadership that failed to articulate a coherent military strategy to win the war. Noto shows that failure of leadership contributed to problems of command discipline, racial tension, drug abuse, and general disregard for military protocol. His study examines these issues and describes how ordinary American boys...
Author
Publisher
Merrion Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the Irish Civil War eighty-three executions were carried out by the National Army of the emerging Free State government, including four prisoners not tried or convicted of any charge. After the war the trial records were destroyed and the execution policy became a bitter memory that was rarely discussed. In this groundbreaking work, Seán Enright examines how a climate emerged in which prisoners could be tried by rudimentary military courts...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 380 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame's early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States,...
9) The great big book of horrible things: the definitive chronicle of history's 100 worst atrocities
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 669 p. : ill., 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...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios-a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared-those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own life is about...
11) Inferno
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
428 p. : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xiii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.
In the weeks...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this astonishing, searing and vitally important documentary, Oscar–nominated director Michael Verhoeven unearths the long-buried truth - while simultaneously showing modern Germany in the throes of an identity crisis. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER documents Germany’s controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts. While...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.
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...
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