FROM THE BOOK "The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside."
In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence w[...]

"This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"
World War I was supposed to be the "war to end[...]

Explores how Russians--prison survivors, historians, concentration camp guards, and others--are healing the wounds inflicted by long-repressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate or find out what happened to relatives who disappeared during Stalin's tyrannical te[...]

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery and brought the issue to the heart of British political life. 'Hoc[...]

Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach--uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation--renders his books devastating and unforgettable.
Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are availab[...]

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the [...]

I Storbritannia var patriotismen sterk i forkant av første verdenskrig. Krigen hadde bred støtte, man regnet med at den ville bli kortvarig. Da den endelig var over, lå millioner av nedslaktede soldater tilbake på slagmarken. Hvordan kunne det gå så galt? Dette er historien om de som hevdet at[...]

En iskall gryning i norra Frankrike, januari 1917. Trettiosex skott smattrar genom tystnaden och arkebuseringen av de brittiska underofficerarna Joseph Stones, Peter Goggins och John McDonald är fullbordad. Deras brott var att ha flytt undan ett tyskt anfallskommando.

Krigsmotståndarna [...]

Kung Leopolds Vålnad är den sanna berättelsen om ett av de största folkmorden i modern tid, men också historien om några få modiga män som vågar protestera och får omvärlden att reagera. Motståndet leder fram till 1900-talets första människorättsrörelse, där bland andra Mark Twain d[...]