Tragic history

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	"The extermination camp brought to 'life': its origins as a humble detention center, and the unimaginable but all-too-believable path to Holocaust."

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	"A story of opportunism, brutality, fanaticism, and neglect: how Rwanda collapsed into bloody genocide while the US, France and the UN pretended not to see. Outstandingly researched and argued."

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	"Contesting popular perceptions, Eric Richards puts the Clearances in a pan-European context of agricultural revolution, challenges to feudalism, and metropolitan hostility to peasant ways of life."

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	"Emphasizes the 'global' nature of the Anglo-American slave trade; its evolution over time; and slaves' persistent, if inconsistent, contestation of the system that oppressed them."

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	"Sweeping narrative account of the Algerian civil war, focusing on missed opportunities, the obstinacy of the French metropolitan government, and the ensuing escalation of violence."

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	"How short-sightedness, greed and Cold War paranoia conspired against the Iranian nationalist leader Mossadegh, leaving a wound in US-Iranian relations that still festers."

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	"Argues that the gulag is what lay at the very heart of Stalinist communism."

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	"Audacious attempt to animate contemporary reaction to the plague on a Europe-wide scale."

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	"A frank perspective on the foundation of the Israeli state which, like all colonial projects, was bloodier and more ruthless than state propaganda allows."

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	"Decline and fall of a proud, vacillating, vain monarch in the face of unprecedented public opposition. Shakespearean tragedy."

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	"When politics and prejudice clash with science and disease, guess who loses?"

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	"Retelling of the destructive, pointless, now largely forgotten Lebanese civil war, with Lebanon and its people trapped by geography and demography as the Israel-Syria-PLO conflict played itself out."

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	"Fact-heavy account of the potato famine and emigration, mixing illustrations, first-hand accounts and statistics."

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	"History of a people without a land, and its hitherto doomed struggle for recognition."

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	"Centers on Britain's amoral, short-sighted and counter-productive behavior during the transfer of sovereignty; responsible for bloodshed and the most substantial mass migration the world has known."