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Even before World War II, there was a genocide. We are talking about the Armenian deportations that killed between one and two million innocent civilians, an atrocity the Turkish government still doesn’t fully acknowledge. At the time of World War I, the Armenian genocide led to the organized death of around one million ethnic Armenians. The Ottoman Empire was collapsing, and in a cruel act of desperation and vengeance, they decided to take out their empirical frustrations on the Armenians. It became one of the ugliest faces of the First World War in history.

In this radical new perspective on Hitler's so-called 'Final Solution', Martin Davidson shows that the terrible fate of Europe's Jews was not one Nazi policy amongst many, but the central preoccupation of the regime, the purpose towards which so many of its resources and energies were directed—the one which they were most determined to achieve and of which they were most chillingly proud. It is the exploration of the mindset from which it sprang that is the central concern of Mobilising Hate.

In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder.

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Conditions were tough. Rations were meagre. The days dragged, and there was a constant battle against boredom. The men, but not officers, had to work, often at heavy labour. Guests of the Third Reich will provide an overview of what daily life was like for prisoners, from staging theatre productions to keep morale up to working allotments and planning audacious escape attempts.

"Sono rimasti inchiodati a lungo nella mia mente, ognuno nella sua vicenda. Pezzi di storia che ci siamo voluti lasciare alle spalle per illuderci che si possa fare finta di niente. Poi un giorno, un giorno di ottobre, in cui il corso delle cose si è spezzato, me li sono trovati di fronte. Tutti in fila." Il 7 ottobre 2023 è un doloroso risveglio per l’Occidente. La ferocia dell’attacco di Hamas a Israele riporta in primo piano, nelle agende del mondo, la causa palestinese e i suoi spettri. Li avevamo rimossi e loro sono tornati.

It is no secret that politicians and their allies are hellbent on keeping us divided. When we fight each other, we forget that politicians are the true enemies of liberty and individuals. This book explains the many ways the elites attempt to turn us against each other. Some of their attempts fail, and some are very successful. What if we could use their strategy against them?

In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.

What's more frightening than some wild alien abduction theory? Human abductors! What does the government know but is not telling us? Are the police involved? Is it population control, or something even more horrible? Are your children at risk of being taken? The Missing exposes why people go missing, who's snatching them, and how to protect yourself and your family. No one simply disappears without a trace. Where are your loved ones? The secret behind dead and missing young Americans is now revealed. Where are they? Who took them and why? Xavier James reveals facts people in power are afraid to talk about.

En este audiolibro se revela lo esencial de las relaciones entre el conflicto armado, el conflicto social, la violencia, el pensamiento crítico y la formulación de políticas públicas de paz en Colombia durante los últimos setenta años, analizados por su autor con el rigor de su compromiso con la paz, y de su conocida agudeza analítica que combina la historia, el derecho, la sociología y la ciencia política, y muestra la incidencia de la investigación y el análisis en el esclarecimiento y la transformación de los conflictos nacionales.

It doesn’t seem like Enver Pasha was a good man. His war crimes caused the deaths of millions of innocent citizens. Sure, during a war and a collapsing empire, you try to do what you can to stop losing, but I doubt anyone in their right mind can justify his actions, which included the slaughter of minorities in the Ottoman Empire during World War One, and even the Armenian Genocide. And to this day, the Turkish government is still somewhat reluctant to acknowledge the severity of that historical atrocity.

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived.

One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland.

Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.

Seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine steht die deutsche Regierung unter maximalem Druck. Falsche Entscheidungen können zu einer unkontrollierbaren Eskalation des Krieges führen, auch zu Not und Unruhen im eigenen Land. Der preisgekrönte Journalist Stephan Lamby hat Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock, Robert Habeck, Christian Lindner und andere in den dramatischen Monaten aus der Nähe beobachtet. Sein hochspannender Bericht liefert exklusive Einblicke in die Regierungszentrale während der schwersten internationalen Krise seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

In the multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-religious Central African state called Cameroon, the country's largest ethnic group that paid the highest price in the struggle for its reunification and independence has effectively been cast as the national enemy by the system made up of those who did not opt for reunification and independence and their French overlords who put them in power. It has been a six-decade old campaign that has robbed the Cameroonian people of their history, divided them and created stereotypes that would take generations to undo.

At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: Warrant Officer Bill Sticpewich. During his three years in the infamous Sandakan POW camp, Sticpewich had seen hundreds of fellow prisoners die of starvation, sickness and overwork. Of more than 2400 Allied prisoners at Sandakan at the start of 1945, only six survived. It was Sticpewich's meticulous evidence that sent Sandakan's commandant and his murderous henchmen to the gallows. But to his fellow prisoners Sticpewich was not a war hero.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

In How Wars End, conflict analyst and former UN weapons inspector Jan Van Aken draws on the history of conflict resolution to present practical, evidence-based strategies for peace. He asks: what can we learn from previous wars, what tools enable hostile actors to talk to each other, and which conditions make peaceful solutions possible? Van Aken skillfully interweaves the latest findings from peace research with stories and examples from Northern Ireland to Serbia, South Sudan to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Syria.

Sonia Budassi narra en forma de crónica la cotidianeidad de Israel y Palestina, la frontera más candente de todo el mundo. Valiéndose de Jóvenes de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, viejos ex combatientes devenidos en políticos, académicos, empresarios y comunicadores, la autora compone un mosaico, más allá del horror, en el que las excursiones de los contingentes de latinoamericanos interesados en el conflicto son la contratara del drama humano y existencial que se vive en esa parte del planeta.