A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making, this is a study of the psychology of some of the least visible perpetrators of crimes against humanity, the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the last two hundred years. It is also an exploration of corporate responsibility and personal culpability today, connecting the bureaucratic blindness...

With chilling clarity, a veteran international journalist delineates the totalitarian ideology and horrific crimes of the leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. A witness to and chronicler of the war-crimes trials of Rwanda (Court of Remorse, 2010), Cruvellier likewise attended the arduous eight-month Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2009 of the notorious head of the S-21 "death mill" in Phnom Penh, Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch. Duch managed the prison, formerly a...

Durante milenios, el cuerpo de la mujer ha sido un arma con la que eǰrcitos, terroristas y milicias han humillado, oprimido y castigado a sus adversarios. A pesar de los numerosos casos de violencia sexual, las voces de las protagonistas han sido acalladas mucho tiempo. Christina Lamb, corresponsal de guerra de larga trayectoria, nos ofrece en Nuestros cuerpos, sus batallas una cr̤nica de la extraordinaria tragedia de la guerra, centr̀ndose en...

"An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss and...