Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America–drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers–to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world..
Tag: History
Nuremberg : Infamy on Trial
The Nuremberg trials took place from November 1945 to October 1946, and, after nearly 50 years, they remain an extraordinary precedent for judging international atrocities. This extraordinary recreation of the Third Reich’s day of reckoning offers chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords, as it captures the trials in bold strokes and minute detail. 16 pages of photos..
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian : John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. ‘No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ‘.– Books of the Southwest..
Blood Red Sunset : A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
In a startlingly vivid, strangely objective, personal narrative, Ma Bo, who was denounced as an ‘active counterrevolutionary’ in 1968, opens a window on the Chinese psyche that no work of history can provide, telling a passionate tale of a humanity that survives against all odds–a tale of ideology and disillusionment that will speak to all readers..