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21) Secret sanction
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo, and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything. Drummond gets consistently suspicious depositions from all of the Green Berets: Supposedly pursued by Serb soldiers, they left the engagement with wounded Serbs firing at them, and no one can explain the number of deaths....
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring the SS...
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"During World War I, over one million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. This one-hour documentary examines what happened and why, in what has been called one of the greatest untold stories of the twentieth century."--Cover.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Description
During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2013
Description
John Koenigsberg was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1937 and is a child survivor of the Holocaust. He speaks extensively about his experiences during the war to schools and organizations along with sharing his personal artifacts with the audience. He uses a PowerPoint presentation to tell his story and this book follows that format. The reason he speaks about his experiences is a hope that the lessons of the Holocaust will not diminish into just a...
27) Sisu
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
2023
Description
During WWII, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover he is no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu," the legendary ex-commando will embody what it means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And this one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold...
28) The wild frontier: atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The true story of the seven-month rampage of an elite army unit in Vietnam, an experiment gone terribly wrong, is told from the viewpoints of the soldiers who tried to resist the descent into hell, and those who did not, and includes accounts from Vietnamese who witnessed the Tiger Force's rampages. It is also the story of how these atrocities, covered up by the Army for decades, came to light at last through the heroic persistence of a few individuals...
30) Apt pupil
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
In order to keep his identity as a Nazi war criminal a secret, Arthur Denker must tell stories of the holocaust to his neighborhood paperboy, Todd Bowden.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Wachsmann offers an ... integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims,...
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 4
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1942 and June 1943, blending historical narrative and primary sources.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. In this rigorusly researched factual novel--drawn almost entirely from historical documents--Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through...
35) Ghosts of Rwanda
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
Author
Series
Holocaust volume 3
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Using primary source material along with historical narrative, explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1939 and December 1941.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
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Description
"Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than 50,000 photos of the nightmare that surrounded him. Brasse's...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped...
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"A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate. One of the most notorious war criminals of all time, Dr. Josef Mengele has come to symbolize both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice in the postwar world. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, historian David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life and career, chronicling his university studies, which led to...
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