Andrew WallisThe massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It...

Jason WebsterHaving pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine...

Thomas Keneally In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the...

Nicholas RankinOn 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an...

Pelai Pages i BlanchIn War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939 , Pelai Pagès i Blanch analyses the political and military evolution of the events in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil...

Randolph L Braham (Editor), Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Editor)The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive, chronicling the wartime fate of...