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An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attorneys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to defend the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II-era war crimes. The defendant, wealthy financier Roger Dykmans, mysteriously refuses to help in his own defense, revealing only that proof of...
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
3) Testimony
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Kindle County novels volume 10
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"In the bestselling tradition of Presumed Innocent--the 1987 debut novel that made him "one of the major writers in America" (NPR)--comes what may be Scott Turow's best thriller yet ... Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what...
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Diane Armstrong's bestselling fictional debut
A mother's silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ... When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. What she does not realise is that she has also embarked on a confronting...
A mother's silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ... When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. What she does not realise is that she has also embarked on a confronting...
6) It could happen here: why America is tipping from hate to the unthinkable--and how we can stop it
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It's almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systematic violence could come for us or our families, but it has happened in our lifetimes-- and it could happen here. As CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Greenblatt has made it his personal mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society. He warns that this they are gathering momentum in the United States-- and violence on...
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The murky underside of a terrorist war... Joe Johnson finds himself in the crosshairs of a Northern Ireland serial sniper who is awaiting the US president's arrival. And the 29-year mystery around an IRA killer's gruesome death deepens.
Ex-CIA war crimes investigator Johnson is up against a ticking clock as the sniper's body count rises and the president and UK prime minister prepare for a G8 world summit near Belfast.
Eventually, Johnson and his...
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Con la firma de los acuerdos de paz entre el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP surgió la pregunta sobre la factibilidad de su implementación. Esta coyuntura hizo pertinente la reflexión sobre la implementación de las políticas públicas. Este libro contiene una selección de las ponencias más significativas del VIII Coloquio Internacional sobre Políticas Públicas: Implementación de Políticas Públicas y Construcción de Paz (2017, Universidad...
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"Unmasking al-Qaeda Role" presents a meticulous exploration of the extremist group's profound influence on the political, social, and military landscapes of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. As one of the most formidable and influential jihadist organizations, al-Qaeda's ideologies and operations have significantly shaped the trajectories of conflicts in these nations, leaving an indelible mark on their histories.Central facets of the book include:Origins...
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In the early 1900s, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) committed the Armenian Genocide as part of their pursuit of Pan-Turkist and Pan-Islamist aspirations known as "ittihadism." The CUP also sought to Turkify non-Muslim property, reminiscent of the Aryanization program in Nazi Germany that targeted Jewish assets. The ittihadist dream was shattered when the Ottoman Empire collapsed following their defeat in the Great War.
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11) Alibi: a novel
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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.
Winner of the Hammett Prize
It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during...
12) Retribution
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Harry Tate thrillers volume 4
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Ex-MI5 Harry Tate is back.
"Harry. Plse make Grosvenor Square tomorrow 18.30. Urgent. Remember Mirovica."
An atrocity that allegedly took place under Harry's watch in Kosovo in 1999 returns to haunt him when he receives a summons from an old UN contact. A lone assassin is tracking down all those who were present that fateful night, despatching his victims with cold, skilful efficiency. Who is he and why does he want revenge?
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"Harry. Plse make Grosvenor Square tomorrow 18.30. Urgent. Remember Mirovica."
An atrocity that allegedly took place under Harry's watch in Kosovo in 1999 returns to haunt him when he receives a summons from an old UN contact. A lone assassin is tracking down all those who were present that fateful night, despatching his victims with cold, skilful efficiency. Who is he and why does he want revenge?
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Este libro analiza el lugar que ocupan las víctimas de crímenes de Estado en Colombia en los escenarios transicionales creados a partir de la implementación de la ley de Justicia y Paz. Tomando como referencia los escenarios que han surgido a partir de esta ley, se consideran algunos marcos de participación determinados para las víctimas en los escenarios judiciales, algunas de las prácticas que se generan como resultado de la reinserción paramilitar...
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La pandemia de la covid-19 ha significado un momento de reflexión para los procesos de integración de América Latina, los cuales se han visto desbordados por su impacto y consecuencias ante la falta de respuestas multilaterales, colaborativas y consensuadas, al preferir actuar de manera individual con prevalencia de soberanías nacionales sobre una actuación de soberanías compartidas. Con ello se está demostrando que, en lo institucional, se...
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This is an unflinching account of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, the Black Hearts found themselves in the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily attacks, suffering a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership,...
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To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. "I was almost never who I said I was, or did what I claimed to be doing." He was a CIA spy. He thrived in an environment of duplicity and ambiguity, flourishing...
17) Comando conjunto: El grupo de exterminio más secreto de la dictadura. Edición revisada y actualizada
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El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes—Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo—desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio. El organismo secreto fue responsable de brutales secuestros, torturas, desapariciones y asesinatos en distintos centros de detención de Santiago.
Parece volver a ser necesario, quizás más necesario que nunca, recordar el horror....
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Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few bad apples. However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to kill anything that moves....
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Great Decisions is an annual nonpartisan briefing book that covers eight foreign policy topics. There are discussion programs around the country based on the material in the book. This year the topics include geopolitics, China and the U.S., Iran, war crimes, famine, Latin American politics, climate migration, and economic warfare. Discussion questions and suggestions for further reading are included.
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