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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The essays in Social Issues In Literature: Genocide in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl examine the book's significance as a Holocaust document as well as viewpoints on genocide in the twenty-first century."--Introduction.
85) The extra
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
86) Galaxy Quest
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The unemployed actors of the Galaxy Quest television series are reduced to convention appearances and store openings. But when a distressed interstellar cadre of benevolent aliens beam Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens onto their ship, they have the misguided hope that these 'historical documents' can defeat a genocidal space warlord.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xlvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations...
92) The world at war
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
11 videodiscs (approximately 1,194 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. in case 20 x 14 x 8 cm
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India, illegally supplied weapons used in massacres and embraced military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades. By the author of Freedom's Battle.
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