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1	Killing Rage more books like this by Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern add to wishlist This memoir provides an insider's account of life inside the Irish Republican Army, and was written after the author had become disillusioned and horrified with the terror and killing. The author of KILLING RAGE was eventually found dead in front of his house after it was published. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places more books like this by Paul Collier add to wishlist The author of "The Bottom Billion" investigates the violence and poverty that plague the countries at the bottom of the world economy. Collier argues that the spread of elections and peace settlements in the world's most volatile countries may lead to a brave new democratic world. see all copies from $16.11! new only from $16.11! \| SVS
3	Train to Pakistan more books like this by Khushwant Singh, Khushwant add to wishlist This unique illustrated edition of a modern-day Indian classic includes previously unpublished pictures by internationally acclaimed photographer Margaret Bourke-White. In the summer of 1947, the frontier between India and its newly-created neighbor, Pakistan, had become a river of blood, as the post-Partition exodus across the border erupted into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Logic of Violence in Civil War more books like this by Stathis Kalyvas add to wishlist By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently ... see all copies from $23.29! new only from $25.51! \| SVS
5	Guerrillas more books like this by V S Naipaul add to wishlist A portrait of political and sexual violence in the Caribbean, ending with a sado-masochistic murder. The author also wrote "A House for Mr Biswas", "The Suffrage of Elvira", "The Mimic Men" and "Mr Stone and the Knights Companion". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Millennium People more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Super-Cannes'. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA more books like this by Richard English add to wishlist The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now--at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland--than it was even a few years ago. Richard English's brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable ... see all copies from $8.93! new only from $13.04! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France more books like this by David Andress add to wishlist This bloody history of the French Revolution makes that major event accessible to the general reader, as David Andress focuses on the Reign of Terror--the collapse of order and the chaotic two-year score-settling in which tens of thousands of French citizens were killed, usually in public by guillotine. Andress blames what he calls the rigid ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Savage Day more books like this by Jack Higgins add to wishlist A story of betrayal in Northern Ireland as an ex-soldier is recruited to infiltrate an IRA gang. He succeeds, only to become caught up in a deadly feud between the IRA and the crazy "Sons of Erin" splinter group. Higgins is also the author of "A Prayer for the Dying" and "Confessional". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Bog Child more books like this by Siobhan Dowd add to wishlist Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. see all copies from $4.67! new only from $4.67! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness more books like this by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela add to wishlist In this acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murdered, Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet a man called "Dr. Death" who is serving 212 years in prison for crimes against humanity. see all copies from $2.18! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
12 view cover	Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala more books like this by Victoria Sanford add to wishlist "Buried Secrets" chronicles the journey of Maya survivors of genocidal violence in Guatemala as they seek truth, justice, and community healing. see all copies from $6.27! new only from $14.96! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794 more books like this by Graeme Fife add to wishlist A powerful and frightening account - based on fresh research and eye-witness accounts - of the great Terror that swept France after the Revolution of 1789. From early 1793 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institutionalised terror which grew ever more bloodthirsty and paranoid in its actions. Personified by ... see all copies from $6.14! new only from $12.53! \| first editions
14 view cover	Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party more books like this by Curtis J Austin, Elbert "Big Man" Howard (Foreword by) add to wishlist Curtis J. Austin's "Up Against the Wall" chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another - Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley - left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $25.32! \| SVS
15 view cover	Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World more books like this by Wole Soyinka add to wishlist In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize--winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom bomb. Today our shared anxiety has become far more complex ... see all copies from $7.59! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies more books like this by Jeremy Varon add to wishlist In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a ... see all copies from $10.42! new only from $19.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Hall of Mirrors more books like this by Robert B Stone, Ph.D. add to wishlist Rheinhardt, a disc jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans in the aftermath of Mardi Gras looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman named Geraldine who is physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past, and a job that involves him with a right-wing political movement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Secret History of the IRA more books like this by Ed Moloney add to wishlist For decades, the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: Gerry Adams. From the outbreak of the troubles to the present day, he has been an immensely influential ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality more books like this by Thomas Turner add to wishlist Successive waves of armed conflict, mind-numbing atrocities against civilian populations and the persistent pillage of innocent villagers' meagre possessions have been the reality of Eastern Congo since 1996. There have been at least 3 million overwhelmingly civilian casualties and constant military interventions of a partisan and economically ... see all copies from $22.84! new only from $22.84! \| SVS
20 view cover	Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror more books like this by Alexander Litvineko, Yuri Felshtinsky, Geoffrey Andrews and Co (Translator) add to wishlist Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Whiteman more books like this by Tony D'Souza add to wishlist Brimming with dangerous passions, ubiquitous genies, spirited proverbs, and the pressures of life in a time of war, this extraordinary debut novel about a maverick American relief worker deep in the West African bush is a tale of desire, isolation, humor, action, and fear. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Night Crossing more books like this by Don J Snyder add to wishlist Betrayed by her husband and pregnant, Nora Andrews returns to Northern Ireland to decide what to do. She is there when a bomb goes off--one of the worst incidents in the history of the Irish troubles--and instinctively Nora gives comfort to a wounded British soldier. What begins as an innocent gesture, however, quickly involves her in someone else ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	Origins of Nazi Violence more books like this by Enzo Traverso, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) add to wishlist In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt?s seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity?s industrialization of killing ... see all copies from $6.58! new only from $26.09! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Furies: Violence & Terror in the French & Russian Revolu more books like this by Arno J Mayer add to wishlist The great romance and fear of bloody revolution - a strange blend of idealism and terror - have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare, immoral and counterproductive. Arguing against this pervasive wishful thinking, Arno J. Mayer ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $2.48! \| first editions
25 view cover	Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology more books like this by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor), San Philippe Bourgois (Editor), Professor Philippe Bourgois (Editor) add to wishlist From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination', humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. "Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology" is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Edited by two of ... see all copies from $40.12! new only from $42.60! \| SVS

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