atrocities

Presents volume one in an eight-volume series featuring Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Adolf Eichmann played in the systematic extermination of over six million Jews during World War Two and provides information on his youth, his rise in the Nazi Party, and escape, capture, and execution in 1962.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor imprisoned at Auschwitz, tells of his experiences serving under Josef Mengele, during which he was forced to perform experiments and autopsies on fellow inmates and treated the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were routinely executed after four months of forced labor in the crematoria.

Describes how gypsies were persecuted by the Nazis during World War II and explains why Nazi policies towards the gypsies was confused and changeable.

Offers a general history of the Holocaust and addresses many of the core issues and debates surrounding it.

Tomiko Higa tells the story of how she survived the Battle of Okinawa during World War II at the age of seven after she became separated from her family.

Profiles the Nazi war criminal who was personally responsible for deciding which inmates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz would work, which would be subjected to experimentation, and which would die.

The author examines the legality of the Iraqi War through a collection of documents, FBI files, and eyewitness accounts, and maintains that the government suppressed vital information about bombings of civilian targets and treatment of prisoners.

Text and photographs describe some of the devastating results of World War II, including refugees, battle fatigue, internment, and destruction of cities.

Recounts the events surrounding the genocide that took place during the Bosnian War, where more than 26,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians were murdered by Serbian troops.

Chronicles the raid by 121 U.S. troops to rescue 513 prisoners of war, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from the Philippines in January 1945.