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All awards · Topic: Genocide, Atrocity & Political Violence · Sorted by score · 62 books · filtered
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From RwandaPhilip Gourevitch199832 pts5 wins5 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Gulag: A History of the Soviet CampsAnne Applebaum200428 pts2 wins6 listsDoubledayHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor WarThomas G. Andrews201014 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand CreekAri Kelman201310 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962Frank Dikötter201010 pts1 wins1 listsWalker & CompanyHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in RwandaRoméo Dallaire200310 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseWar & MilitaryIndigenous History+2
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel LivesAlan Bullock199310 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsHistoryWorld War Ii+3
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold WarMelvyn P. Leffler199210 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962Alistair Horne197710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanWar & MilitaryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and RevolutionariesDaniela Richterova20254 pts1 wins1 listsGeorgetown University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the HolocaustAri Joskowicz20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of SolidarityRory Finnin20224 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for TruthJane Rogoyska20224 pts1 wins1 listsOneworldHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War IIFrancine Hirsch20204 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945Emma Kuby20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative HistorySteven T. Katz20194 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated AuschwitzJack Fairweather20194 pts1 wins1 listsW. H. AllenBiographyWorld War Ii+3
The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific PracticeChris Chambers20174 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceMental Health & Psychology+3
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval EuropeE.M. Rose20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Anti-Judaism: The Western TraditionDavid Nirenberg20134 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and PolandMichael Meng20114 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Hare with Amber EyesEdmund de Waal20114 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorBiographyGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War IITara Zahra20114 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance StateShane Harris20104 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its MeaningPeter Trachtenberg20084 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American DemocracyCharlie Savage20074 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownPolitics & GovernmentGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power and War in RwandaScott Straus20064 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressRace & EthnicityCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu GhraibKaren J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel20054 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressWar & MilitaryAmerican Politics+1
About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to ClintonJames Mann20004 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63Marc Trachtenberg19994 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The WallJohn Hersey19504 pts1 wins1 listsModern LibraryHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish CultureDavid G. Roskies19844 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressSociety & CultureGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the HolocaustMiriam Libicki, David Schaffer, Gilad Seliktar, Nico, Rolf Kamp, Barbara Yelin, Emmie Arbel, Charlotte Schallié (ed.)20234 pts1 wins1 listsNew Jewish PressBiographyGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the HolocaustAnna Porter20074 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the RajAnita Anand20204 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Warrant for GenocideNorman Cohn19684 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
Vanished: An Unnatural History of ExtinctionSadiah Qureshi20254 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin BooksScienceIndigenous History+3
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022Frank Trentmann20234 pts0 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the HolocaustJeffrey Veidlinger20214 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryWorld War I+3
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and CaliphsMarc David Baer20214 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Tiny Lights for TravellersNaomi K. Lewis20194 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Alberta PressTravel & PlaceWorld War Ii+3
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley Cohen20014 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for JusticeScott Ellsworth20214 pts0 wins2 listsDuttonRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A ReckoningPeter Beinart20252 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+2
Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary EuropeBrianne Cohen20232 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous SurvivalDaniel Finkelstein20232 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyWorld War Ii+3
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the HolocaustAndrew I. Port20232 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone BadMichela Wrong20212 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsPolitics & GovernmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to ForgivenessJennifer Berry Hawes20192 pts0 wins1 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of HistorySteven J. Zipperstein20192 pts0 wins1 listsLiverightHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist HistoryZoë Waxman20172 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressMemoir & AutobiographyWorld War Ii+3
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and WarningTimothy Snyder20162 pts0 wins1 listsTim Duggan BooksHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous RegionMasha Gessen20162 pts0 wins1 listsSchockenHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark TimesAnne Heller20152 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of WrathRick Wartzman20082 pts0 wins1 listsPublicAffairsHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+2
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second SlaveryEarl Swift20252 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeSlavery & Emancipation+3
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian GenocideEric Bogosian20162 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and LiberationScott Carney, Jason Miklian20222 pts0 wins1 listsEccoHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes AfterClemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil20182 pts0 wins1 listsCrown ArchetypeMemoir & AutobiographyImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in GuantanamoLakhdar Boumediene, Mustafa Ait Idir20170 pts0 wins1 listsRedwood PressMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Reluctant Witness: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust ConsciousnessArlene Stein20140 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressSociety & CultureGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
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All awards · Topic: Genocide, Atrocity & Political Violence · Sorted by score · 62 books · filtered