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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction...

Noting that concentration camps were not where most of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism died, Snyder (history, Yale U.) investigates the murder of 14 million people by Nazi and Soviet regimes at killing sites in the "bloodlands," the geographic region between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, encompassing the Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, and western Russia between 1933 and 1945. These killings were part of political mass murder...

Examines current controversies surrounding genocide, chronicling the practice's history and providing a detailed analysis of what needs to be done by the international community in order to prevent future genocidal occurrences.

In "Staring Genocide in the Face," Jerry Fowler, Director of the Committee on Conscience, relates stories told by Darfurian refugees in Chad. In "Darfur Eyewitness," former United States Marine Brian Steidle describes what he saw while in Darfur with the African Union Monitoring Force.

Eric Irivuzumugabe offers a personal, first-hand account of the Rwanda genocide. As a sixteen-year-old boy, Irivuzumugabe was forced to hide in a tree for over two weeks to escape his would-be killers. In less than four months, over 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives. Fortunately, Irivuzumugabe survived and now shares his harrowing tale.