Atrocity

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY... Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out... This is the first novel in the Laundry Files. Features Summary The explosive first volume in The Laundry Files - a series that combines spy fiction with the supernatural, where George Smiley and MI6 meet Lovecraft... Author Charles Stross Publisher Orbit Release date 20130702 Pages 317 ISBN 0-356-50239-2 ISBN 13 978-0-356-50239-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The slaughter of a wagon train of some 120 people in southern Utah on September 11, 1857, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. Innocent Blood gathers key primary sources describing the tangled story of the Mountain Meadows massacre. This wide array of contrasting perspectives, many never before published, provide a powerful and intimate picture of this "dastardly outrage" and its cover-up. A fine addition to the Kingdom in the West Series. The documents David L. Bigler and Will Bagley have collected offer a clearer understanding of the victims, the perpetrators, and the reasons a frontier American theocracy sought to justify or conceal the participants' guilt. These narratives make clear that, despite limited Southern Paiute involvement, white men planned the killing and their church's highest leaders encouraged Mormon settlers to undertake the deed. This compelling documentary record presents the primary evidence that tells the story from its contradictory perspectives. The sources let readers evaluate and track the evolution of such myths as the Paiutes' guilt, the emigrants' provocation of their murderers, Brigham Young's ignorance of what happened, and John D. Lee's sole culpability. Clearly revealed is the part Utah authorities took in blocking the investigation until it became expedient to sacrifice Lee. Together, these narratives show how the massacre's story has been continually distorted and then revealed over 150 years--and how the obfuscation and cover-up continue. "Innocent Blood "conveys the encompassing impact the atrocity had on people's lives, then and for generations after. It is a valuable sourcebook sure to prove indispensable to future research. Features Summary Sources documenting a frontier atrocity and its cover-up Author David L Bigler (Editor), Will Bagley (Editor) Publisher Arthur H. Clark Co Release date 20081031 Pages 508 ISBN 0-87062-362-1 ISBN 13 978-0-87062-362-2

Hardcover. English. Bodley Head. 1990. 349pp. In good condition with edgeworn dw. This is the most powerful book about the apartheid era by a white author. Daniel Malan, PM of South Africa 1948, who originated 'apartheid' legislation was Rian Malan's ancestor. After reconstructing his family's 300-year history of pioneering, conquest and exploitation, the book recounts Malan's own experiences, as a journalist, of white/black, black/black and white/white violence and atrocity with an accuracy that is almost too much to bear, precisely because the reader knows that none of it is imaginary. The author's final admission of his own culpability as a white Afrikaner is moving and real. Anyone who wishes to understand the sources of conflict in South Africa should read this book. (Kirkus UK)

Paperback. English. Cassell. 2002. ISBN: 9780304354481. 255pp. In good condition. When the Third Reich collapsed, 70 million Germans were left bewildered and terrified, their leaders dead or incarcerated; the victors saw fully for the first time the unbearable legacy of death, atrocity, and destruction left by the Nazis. Here is the view from Hitler's bunker, where news came of his troops surrendering on every front. An extraordinary story of ruin, retribution, sometimes courage and occasional suicide...and the ultimate rise from these ashes of a powerful, democratic republic. Book No: 45890

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Mohamed El-Bachiri is a Muslim. He lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels bombing of March 2016 - a young woman murdered by a fanatical jihadist. Mohamed was left to bring up their three sons on his own. Instead of hating or collapsing into grief, he put together a short book of reflections on love, loss and the ways in which we can live together despite differences of religion and ideology. It is a plea for tolerance and compassion, a rejection of fanaticism, and it is a heartbreaking book. Mohamed El-Bachiri shows how an argument for treating each other with kindness and respect can survive even the most brutal atrocity. For him, Islam should be a struggle for love, and the struggle for love should involve us all. Features Summary A heartbreaking plea for tolerance and compassion from Mohamed El-Bachiri, who lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels attack of March 2016. Author Mohamed El Bachiri (Author), David van Reybrouck (Author) Publisher Head of Zeus Release date 20170815 Pages 96 ISBN 1-78669-800-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78669-800-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Two years ago, Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup. The tournament went without a hitch. Until a man died in one of the executive hospitality suites during the final, and the autopsy showed the cause to be a rare and deadly virus. The story was kept from the media to avoid causing panic, but Jack feared that the death was no freak occurrence. Now the eyes of the world are once again turned towards Rio for the Olympic Games, and Jack is back in Brazil's beautiful capital. It's not long before he uncovers terrifying evidence that someone has set in motion a catastrophic plan. The death at the World Cup was just a warning. The Olympic Games could be the setting for the worst atrocity the world has ever seen. Features Summary Two years ago, Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup. The tournament went without a hitch. Until a man died in one of the executive hospitality suites during the final... Author James Patterson Publisher Century Release date 20160616 Pages 400 ISBN 1-78089-281-0 ISBN 13 978-1-78089-281-8

Book in still in good condition - >>>    Media coverage of this book has been so extensive as to make any summary almost superfluous.   It tells, in unbearable detail, of the humiliation, systematic butchery, torture and burning alive of 1,600 Jewish men, women and children in the Polish town of Jedwabne on 10 July 1941.    This atrocity was perpetrated not by the Nazi's but by their Polish neighbours who had, since June, begun to starve out the Jewish population.   It did not involve any German units, though the occupiers and the Waffen SS had made no secret of their own homicidal intentions towards Polish Jews.   The joyous, demented sadists of Jedwabne were Poles to a man (and woman).     * Poland * War Crimes * Second World War * 2nd * II * Two *  *N.B.*   If you buy more books from me you only pay R 6 postage each on the additional books – see what else I have to offer, it might be worth your while.  

Paperback. English. Vintage. 1991. 349pp. In fair condition. This is the most powerful book about the apartheid era by a white author. Daniel Malan, PM of South Africa 1948, who originated 'apartheid' legislation was Rian Malan's ancestor. After reconstructing his family's 300-year history of pioneering, conquest and exploitation, the book recounts Malan's own experiences, as a journalist, of white/black, black/black and white/white violence and atrocity with an accuracy that is almost too much to bear, precisely because the reader knows that none of it is imaginary. The author's final admission of his own culpability as a white Afrikaner is moving and real. Anyone who wishes to understand the sources of conflict in South Africa should read this book. (Kirkus UK)

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Four bodies are found in a luxury hotel The first is a man who checked in under a false name. Two are in a room next door, full of surveillance equipment. And the fourth is the house maid, who saw too much. Detective Lindsay Boxer is sent in to investigate and hunt down an elusive and dangerous suspect. But when her husband Joe goes missing, she begins to fear that the suspect she is searching for could be him. As the case gets ever more complicated and personal, San Francisco is suddenly faced with an atrocity no one will ever forget. Features Summary Four bodies are found in a luxury hotelThe first is a man who checked in under a false name. But when her husband Joe goes missing, she begins to fear that the suspect she is searching for could be him... Author James Patterson Publisher Arrow Books Ltd Release date 20160811 Pages 463 ISBN 0-09-959459-5 ISBN 13 978-0-09-959459-8

Kaiser Wilhelm II, His General, His Settlers,  His Soldiers. An excellent study of one of Africa's often overlooked atrocity, researched and written by Jeremy Sarkin.  I n 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly because the German policy not to pay reparations for the Namibian genocide contrasts with its long-standing Holocaust reparations policy. The Herero case bears not only on transitional justice issues throughout Africa, but also on legal issues elsewhere in the world where reparations for colonial injustices have been called for. This book explores the events within the context of German South West Africa (GSWA) as the only German colony where settlement was actually attempted. The study contends that the genocide was not the work of one rogue general or the practices of the military, but that it was inexorably propelled by Germany's national goals at the time. The book argues that the Herero genocide was linked to Germany's late entry into the colonial race, which led it frenetically and ruthlessly to acquire multiple colonies all over the world within a very short period, using any means available. First edition softcover published by UCT Press, 2011. 276 pages with index. Illustrated. Good condition. Tracked postage is R55.00.

Softcover. English. Vary. 1978. ISBN: 0620034696. 52pp. 4to - over 9¾ - 12 inches tall. In fair condition. This is a very scarce Revisionist History book on war atrocity photographs from World War II to the present. The book provides an in depth study on how pictures are doctored for propaganda purposes. Signed and inscribed by the author to Susan.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN's "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist between the world's normative pledges to R2P and its ability to make it a daily lived reality? In this new book, leading global authorities on humanitarian protection Alex Bellamy and Edward Luck offer a probing and in-depth response to this fundamental question, calling for a more comprehensive approach to the practice of R2P - one that moves beyond states and the UN to include the full range of actors that play a role in protecting vulnerable populations. Drawing on cases from the Middle East to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, they examine the forces and conditions that produce atrocity crimes and the challenge of responding to them quickly and effectively. Ultimately, they advocate both for emergency policies to temporarily stop carnage and for policies leading to sustainable change within societies and governments. Only by introducing these additional elements to the R2P toolkit will the failures associated with humanitarian crises like Syria and Libya become a thing of the past. Features Summary In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle... Author Alex J. Bellamy (Author), Edward C. Luck (Author) Publisher Polity Press Release date 20181102 Pages 324 ISBN 1-5095-1244-6 ISBN 13 978-1-5095-1244-7