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The Abu Ghraib investigations

the official reports of the independent panel and Pentagon on the shocking prisoner abuse in Iraq
2004
Presents relevant information about the abuse Iraqi prisoners faced at the hands of the U.S. military, with excerpts from the official Abu Ghraib Report, the Jones/Fay Investigation, photographs of the abuse, and key primary documents.

The torture papers

the road to Abu Ghraib
2005
Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.

Sky

a true story of courage during World War II : illustrated with photographs, documents, and letters from the author's collection
1998
The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.

Chain of command

the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
2004
A collection of news articles by Seymour Hersh that originally appeared in "The New Yorker" that address a variety of topics related to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The prisoners of Cabrera

Napoleon's forgotten soldiers, 1809-1814
2001
Chronicles the experiences of the soldiers who were held prisoner on the island of Cabrera off the coast of Spain during the last five years of the Napoleonic Wars, where they were forced to survive in horrific conditions with almost no food, little fresh water, and only the clothes on their backs.

Commandant of Auschwitz

the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
2000
Offers an autobiographical account of the life of Rudolph Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz during World War II.

My Guant?namo diary

the detainees and the stories they told me
2008
The author tells the stories of a number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay as she provided supervised legal counsel and helped them find evidence that would prove their innocence.

I am a soldier, too

the Jessica Lynch story
2003
Private First Class Jessica Lynch chronicles the events surrounding her capture by Iraqi soldiers in March, 2003, and her rescue by American troops.

The hiding place

2006
A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi's during World War II.

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