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Atrocities Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979 Genocide Cambodia Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Atrocités Parti communiste du Kampuchea. Pol Pot Political atrocities Cambodia Political atrocities Cambodia History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 AtrocitiesFilter By Subjects
Atrocities Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979 Genocide Cambodia Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Atrocités Parti communiste du Kampuchea. Pol Pot Political atrocities Cambodia Political atrocities Cambodia History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 AtrocitiesSummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIFPreston, Paul
Summary: Describes the atrocities committed during the reign of General Francisco Franco, who executed tens of thousands of "non-persons" and abused women and children under a belief system comprised of eugenics, terror, domination, and mind control.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.08 PREHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMKeat, Nawuth
Summary: The gripping story of a young boy who survived the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and escaped to the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.6042 KEAWelaratna, Usha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 WELShort, Philip.
Summary: A portrait of the Cambodian despot whose rule saw the deaths of one-fifth of the country's population documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into radical egalitarianism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.6042 SHOUng, Loung.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGRoy, Arundhati.
Summary: In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.137 ROYAffonco, Denise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reportage 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 AFFONCO, DENISE AFFSummary: Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISGoffard, Christopher.
Contents: The house at the edge of the dark -- The lawyer -- The collar and the gun -- Oaths -- The dictator -- The clashes -- The terrible place -- The raid -- Lolgorien -- The tribunal -- The girls -- We will all be sorted out -- The bureau -- Manic depression -- The verdict -- The end of the time of Moi -- The inquest -- The labyrinth with no center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GOFPringle, Peter.
Summary: Describes the life and career of Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist who created the world's first seed bank, and his political problems and persecution later in life that resulted in his imprisonment and death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 PRIUng, Loung.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGMcDonough, Frank
Summary: "Written with access to previously unpublished records, this is the fullest and most definitive account available on Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo. The book illustrates how, despite its material constraints, this group was able to extend its reach widely and quickly by manipulating and colluding with the general public during World War II, making ordinary German citizens complicit in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MCDEischeid, Susan J.
Summary: This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015