The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" ("The New York Times Book Review")
A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, "Standard Operating Procedure" is a war sto[...]
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
A New York Times Editor's Choice
Winner of:
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The George[...]
The first in a proposed three-volume set, a fascinating compilation of twenty interviews with some of the world's leading authors, poets, novelists, playwrights, and memoirists features candid, insightful dialogues with Philip Roth, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Bishop, William Faulkner, and other notabl[...]
From a prize-winning author and, in Elmore Leonard's words, "a knockout writer," comes a masterfully written and gripping tale of a determined investigator who reopens an unresolved case of double homicide in New York nearly thirty years after the brutal event. Philip Gourevitch vividly evokes the a[...]
'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm 'Like the greatest war reporters, Philip Gourevitch raises the human banner in hell's mouth ...This volume establishes him as the peer of Mic[...]
In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Phi[...]
Abu Ghraib var det största och mest ökända av Saddam Husseins fängelser, ett helvete på jorden där tortyr och godtyckliga dödsdomar var vardag.
På denna plats, där Bagdads långsträckta förorter möter den flacka öknen bortom flygplatsen, uppförde den amerikanska armén i ju[...]