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In the Crossfire

Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

Ngo Van

Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the...

The Men with the Pink Triangle

The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

Heinz Heger

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed...

Overcoming Speechlessness

A Poet Encounters the Horrors in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Alice Walker

In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group...

Bitterly Divided

The South's Inner Civil War

David Williams

In Bitterly Divided, Civil War historian David Williams shatters teh myth of a united Confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—an external one that we...

Shadow War

The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir

Arif Jamal

For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought...

Reporting Iraq

An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It

Mike Hoyt

The world's best known reporters tell the story of what really happened in Iraq in a gripping and gritty narrative history of the war. Included are contributions from fifty international...

When Media Goes to War

Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent

Anthony DiMaggio

In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and...

Guantanamo

A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution

Jana K. Lipman

Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation...

The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade

Nicholas Gilby

One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this No-Nonsense Guide puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history. Despite the cynicism, bribery, and corruption that...