Political Science - Genocide & War Crimes

The highly individualized essays of Gaza Rising: Voices from the Rubble share a basic message that years ago was issued by a respected Palestinian civil society organization, "We Are Not Numbers." While an informative portrayal of Palestinian suffering by reporting casualties as divided among...

An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians. Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is Together, bears witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people--their lives, their...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays. Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide...

Phil Tourney provides an eyewitness account of Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. While patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on June 8, 1967, the unarmed, intelligence-gathering vessel confronted an enemy they never expected: Israel. In an unprovoked and vicious...

As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an...

Written with "erudition and verve" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times-bestselling author of On Tyranny), this is the full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in...

When the slogans are louder than the facts, evidence becomes a moral imperative. In Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, United States District Judge Roy K. Altman brings legal rigor to the world's most contentious debate. Applying courtroom-tested standards--burden...

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far...

The #1 New York Times bestseller, first time in paperback! As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war...

Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist "Provocative, elegantly written."--Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books "Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia...

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST - CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE FINALIST - This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and...

A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their...

A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine gets an update following the events of October 7, 2023.Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire is an essential book for the current moment. Taking a firm anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel, it traces...

Author: Trevor Reed,Jim DeFelicePublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.50dISBN: 9780063428546Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2025About the AuthorReed, Trevor: - Trevor Reed is a former Marine infantryman, Presidential Guard, and Marine Corps martial arts instructor....

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, "an exquisite feminist critique of Russia's oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews) revealing how modern Russia's history of...

"A masterly work of military and judicial history." --New York Times. Telford Taylor's book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century. In 1945, the Allied nations...

Ten genocides. Five centuries. An award-winning writer, artist, and descendant of genocide survivors captures humanity's darkest horrors in an immersive, fully illustrated graphic history; the first of its kind. The Book of Genocides is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the...

A media scholar examines how US establishment outlets echo Israeli narratives on Gaza, miminimizing atrocities like the Flour Massacre as "aid-related deaths" to whitewash genocide and excuse war crimes amid global outrage.This vitally necessary and carefully researched book examines the way US establishment media...

A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves...