World history

An examination of the 1945 Nuremberg Trial of twenty Nazi war criminals with profiles of the defendants and prosecutors, the interrogations, and the sentences.

Outlines the circumstances that led to the genocide in Rwanda, where nearly one million people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days, and discusses international reactions and the aftermath.

Discusses the history of ancient India.

This book traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from 1948 to the present, describing the Occupied Territories, the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, friction between the Arab nations and Israel, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, and Hamas' control of Gaza.

This book traces the history of the Red Scare, from 1917 when the Bolsheviks take power in Russia to the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.

Presents an overview of the history of the information revolution, detailing the birth of computers, calculators, the Internet, and sites such as Amazon.com, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google. Includes primary and secondary source quotations, a timeline, a glossary, and sources of more information.

A detailed study of the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland which began as a prisoner of war camp and later served as a death camp to millions of Jews, Poles, Czechs, and others deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime.

Looks at the earliest human civilizations to spring up along the rivers of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China.

Examines the origins and events of the series of wars called crusades that lasted from 1095 to 1291.