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1	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories more books like this by Philip Gourevitch add to wishlist A history of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which longstanding enmity between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the extremist Hutu majority. Gourevitch contrasts horrific eyewitness accounts told by Rwandans with the muted responses of the rest of the world. He also assesses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide more books like this by Samantha Power add to wishlist This study of genocide in the 20th century examines America's pattern of reluctance to intervene--including in the Holocaust, in Cambodia, and in Bosnia. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography more books like this by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner add to wishlist The riveting life story of Rusesabagina--the man whose heroism inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda"--is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature. "An Ordinary Man" explores what the film could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda more books like this by Romeo Dallaire, LT add to wishlist On the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naïveté, racism and international ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur more books like this by Professor Ben Kiernan add to wishlist For thirty years, Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $17.22! \| first editions \| SVS
6	When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda more books like this by Mahmood Mamdani add to wishlist An African intellectual brings a great knowledge of history, politics, and geography to the issue of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Mamdani examines genocide as a category, and traces the Rwandan genocide to its sources in the colonial period and to post-colonial identity politics. He calls for reform through a politics informed by an awareness of ... see all copies from $17.60! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
7	The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence more books like this by Ervin Staub add to wishlist How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide. see all copies from $8.19! new only from $31.84! \| SVS
8	By Force of Arms more books like this by William C Dietz add to wishlist Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Darfur and the Crime of Genocide more books like this by John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond add to wishlist In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell's U.N. and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it languished in the archives as the killing continued, claiming hundreds of thousands of murder and rape ... see all copies from $10.40! new only from $10.40! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo more books like this by Clea Koff add to wishlist Published ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, "The Bone Woman" is a riveting account by a forensic anthropologist sent on missions by the UN War Crimes Tribunal. As she recounts the details of her work, the hellish working conditions, the bureaucracy, and the heartbreak of survivors, Koff imbues her story with a sense of hope, humanity, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism more books like this by Alexander Stille add to wishlist The experience of Italian Jews under fascism was a strange mixture of acceptance and betrayal, of sympathy and brutal persecution. Jews and fascists co-existed as they did nowhere else - there were even Jewish members of the Italian Fascist Party, enthusiastic and welcomed supporters of Benito Mussolini - though leagued with Hitler - staunchly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution more books like this by Henry Friedlander add to wishlist An exhaustively reasearched account of the killings of over 70,000 physically and mentally handicapped German citizens under a program code-named 'T4'. Friedlander asserts that many of the practices used in the 'T4' program served as a model for those used during the Holocaust. see all copies from $9.49! new only from $30.74! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Defining the Horrific: Readings on Genocide and Holocaust in the 20th Century more books like this by William Hewitt add to wishlist For courses in 20th-Century World History, The Holocaust, World History II (since 1500), and Genocide. With a wide-ranging scope, this anthology is a brief, chronological introduction to the geographic, ideological, cultural breadth, and frequency of genocide in the twentieth century. It contains provocative questions and several case studies. see all copies from $15.97! new only from $55.92! \| SVS
14 view cover	Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After more books like this by Merrill D Peterson add to wishlist The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of World War I at the hands of the Turks. Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian ... see all copies from $3.97! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It more books like this by Stephen Kinzer add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $3.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda more books like this by Scott Straus add to wishlist see all copies from $14.78! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Rwanda crisis : history of a genocide more books like this by Gerard Prunier add to wishlist Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier probes into how the genocidal events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic - a plan that served ... see all copies from $10.59! new only from $22.11! \| SVS
18 view cover	Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide more books like this by Adam LeBor add to wishlist From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Murambi: The Book of Bones more books like this by Boubacar Boris Diop, Fiona MC Laughlin (Translator), Eileen Julien (Foreword by) add to wishlist In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In "Murambi, The Book of Bones", Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Now, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $12.75! \| SVS
20 view cover	Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing more books like this by James Waller add to wishlist Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In "Becoming Evil", social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller debunks the ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $18.18! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust more books like this by Marijo Moore (Editor) add to wishlist In "Eating Fire, Tasting Blood", twenty established and up-and-coming American Indian writers from disparate nations and tribes offer stirring reflections on the history of their people. This is not a collection of essays about Native Americans but rather a collection by Native Americans - the story of native holocaust on a tribe-by-tribe level as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
22 view cover	Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon more books like this by Patrick Tierney add to wishlist An anthropologist turns his critical eye on his own field and uncovers troubling conduct by some of the most renowned researchers of the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon, including Napoleon Chagnon and Jacques Lizot. Charges include misrepresenting the role of violence in their culture, helping to provide vaccines that caused deaths, and sexually ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Comparative Studies in Religion and Society more books like this by Professor Michael A Sells add to wishlist The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old adversaries. It is, he says, a systematic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Modernity and the Holocaust more books like this by Professor Zygmunt Bauman add to wishlist Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more ... see all copies from $7.91! new only from $16.75!
25 view cover	Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity more books like this by Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic add to wishlist Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian Mafia. In 1999, she become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal. She offers this courageous and startling memoir of her eight years spent striving to serve justice. see all copies from $9.44! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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