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• An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

  Paul Rusesabagina

  
  
   

• The Diary of Anne Frank

  Anne Frank

  
  
   

• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

  Tadeusz Borowski

  
  
   

• Survival in Auschwitz

  Primo Levi

  
  
   

• Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwanden Holocaust

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  
  
   

• The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)

  Anne Frank

  
  
   

• A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide - The Killers Speak

  Jean Hatzfeld

  
  
   

• The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition

  Anne Frank

  
  
   

• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

  Taner Akcam

  
  
   

• Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Second Edition): A Short History of a Long War: 1 (African Arguments)

  Julie Flint, Alex de Waal

  
  
   

• Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

  Deborah E. Lipstadt

  
  
   

• NOT ON OUR WATCH: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

  Don Cheadle with John Prendergast

  
  
   

• 'Complicity with Evil': The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide

  Adam LeBor

  
  
   

• Winter in the Morning: Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-45 (Virago classic non-fiction)

  Janina Bauman

  
  
   

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in the Congo

  Adam Hochschild

  
  Years ago, Adam Hochschild came across a reference to the "five to eight million lives" destroyed in the colonial exploitation of the Congo. Startled, he realised that this had been "one of the major killing grounds of modern times. Why were these deaths not mentioned in the standard litany of our century's horrors?" His corrective history makes sobering and gripping reading. In King Leopold of Belgium, who decided to buy himself an empire to compensate for his country's smallness, he portrays a villain of Shakespearian dimensions. Aided by Stanley (of "Mr Livingstone I Presume" fame) the king appropriated a section of central Africa the size of Western Europe as his personal territory. The appalling brutality that ensued, as Europeans plundered the country for rubber and ivory, is vividly captured by Hochschild. He manages to leaven the horror with touches of grotesque humour--for instance, when tricking tribal chiefs into signing away their land for bales of cloth, Stanley would, to impress his dupes, secrete a battery in his pocket with the wires in his palm, so that on shaking hands the chief "was greatly surprised to find his white brother so strong that he nearly knocked him off his feet". Hochschild has something of Simon Schama's gift for populist history; and among other things he provides astonishing background to Joseph Conrad's Congo-set masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. --Adam Roberts
  
   

• The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

  John Loftus, Mark Aarons

  
  
   

• The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Classics)

  Primo Levi

  
  Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Taking the knowledge he gained from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.
  
   

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

  Hannah Arendt

  
  
   

• The British Government and the Holocaust: The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership?

  Meier Sompolinsky

  
  
   

• I Never Saw Another Butterfly

  Y. Volavkova