books about: genocide

books about: genocide

books:

Genocide

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis

One World/Ballantine, 2008

Pride and Prejudice
Tears in the Desert is a memoir of genocide in the Sudan, Muslim against Muslim over skin color. Halima Bashir is a black African raised in the Zaghawa tribe in a family of comparative wealth. The Zaghawa men are proud of their history as fierce warriors who protect ...

Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide

Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

Hay House, 2008

A Powerful Spiritual Gem
Following up her incredible,life-changing book, LEFT TO TELL, this volume reveals Immaculee's intense, profound and deeply moving spiritual journey after the horrific Rwandan genocide that she survived by God's providence. It shows the spiritual fruit of those 91 days ...

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Immaculee Ilibagiza

Hay House, 2007

Anything is possible...
It is unbelievable that people could kill so many people in such a gruesome fashion. It is even more unbelievable that Immaculee could forgive those killers. This book is about more than just the genocide, it is about the power and absolute necessity of forgiveness. ...

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

Simon Wiesenthal

Schocken, 1998

The Sunflower, Pain and Forgiveness, Past and Present
Summoned to the bedside of a dying Nazi who had willingly participated in the systematic annihilation of Europe's Jews, concentration camp inmate Simon Wiesenthal found himself the captive, solitary witness to this 21-year-old SS man's confession of responsibility for ...

What Is the What (Vintage)

Dave Eggers

Vintage, 2007

a must read
Dave Eggers' writing is superb and really allows the voice of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Sudanese Lost Boys, to really come out. It's a very touching story and gives you a view on a part of Africa most people know nothing about.

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)

Samantha Power

Harper Perennial, 2007

Thorough Study of Genocide History
Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an impressive accounts of genocide against Armenians in Turkey, Jews in Holocaust, Tutsi in Rwanda, Kurds in Iraq, and Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan war; the stories are extremely ...

Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

Touchstone, 1996

primo levi
Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as ...

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Stephen Kinzer

Wiley, 2008

Fascinating and Insightful Read
I read this book in preparation for trip to Rwanda later this year. Mr. Kinzer has done exhaustive research into the history or Rwanda from the early 20th century through the present. From the time of Belguin colonialism, the rise of the RPF in Uganda and the ...

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

Picador, 1999

One of the best books I have read in a long time
Philip Gourevitch, in We Wish to Inform You, has accomplished an incredible feat: a moral and reasoned history of an insane situation. He manages to cut through all of the misinformation that we so often hear about the Rwandan Genocide and write something truly ...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998

An Emotive, Powerful and Well-Researched Piece
I had known about this book for quite some time, but only got around to reading it recently. You need quite a bit of mental fortitude to get through such a book; it is graphic in the extreme. I stealed myself for the effort, but got quite upset by about page 80. The ...

Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

Don Cheadle, Prender John

Hyperion, 2007

If you want to change something.
If you want to learn about some ways to actually try and change something in our world about the terrible things that are happening internationally then read this book. The authors are very practical in breaking down simple steps you can take as the average joe to ...

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

Daoud Hari

Random House, 2008

Best of Luck
Daoud clearly had a remarkable string of luck. He should have died at least a dozen times, but thankfully, he lived and has written this moving and well-written account of his time in the desert. I highly recommend buying this short book and reading it wherever you ...

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

Andrea Smith

South End Press, 2005

Transcends mainstream understandings of sexual violence
Smith's groundbreaking book should be required reading for all rape crisis advocates in North America. Not only does she provide a scholarly examination of the link between colonial genocide and sexual violence, Smith also provides context for contemporary activism ...

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur

Ben Kiernan

Yale University Press, 2007

Genocidal Energy Sources: Antiquity, Agrarianism, Racism, and/or Expansionism
Ben Kiernan has realized a tour de force in clearly explaining to his readers the four usual ideological features of genocides: antiquity, agrarianism, racism, and expansionism. These ideological factors have motivated, in greater or lesser degrees, all military, ...

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power

Da Capo Press, 2004

Well written book about what never should have happened
This is a long book, but still you don't get bored while you are reading it. Mainly I just got upset as I read how Romeo Dallaire tried to stop this genocide from happening. There was an informant telling him that the Hutu extreemists planned to kill the Tutsis. The ...