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Midnight in Some Burning Town : British Special Forces Operations from Belgrade to Baghdad

History

Jennings, Christian

Military

ORNUK

Physical description; 349 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Jennings, Christian. Genocide - Burundi. Rwanda - History - Civil War, 1994. Burundi - History - 20th century. Rwanda - Politics and government.

Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi, and the heart of darkness

Travel

Africa

London : Gollancz

Harrowing in its detail, yet often scathingly humorous, this first-hand account of the Central African nightmare exposes the baffling politics behind one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.

Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness

Phoenix

This true account of life in the modern French Foreign Legion exposes the myths and truths of this legendary corps. The author served in Corsica, France and Africa with men of 52 nationalities, and his factual and humorous views provide insight into the soldiering process and military life.

Mouthful of Rocks: Through Africa and Corsica in the French Foreign Legion

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English\nRome, spring 1944. The Nazi's persecution of Italian Jews was at its height. Giovanni Borromeo, the head physician at a hospital on the River Tiber, decided to risk his life by disguising members of the local Jewish community as patients afflicted with an imaginary disease, and hid them in closed wards. Fearing catching this highly contagious illness, known only as ‘Syndrome K', the Germans fell for it, and the Jews escaped deportation to the Nazi death camps. It was just one of many ingenious ways the Italians fought a concerted, covert battle to resist the Holocaust, and in Syndrome K acclaimed historian Christian Jennings explores them for the first time in the English language.\nDrawing on original archive material in Italy, Germany, the Vatican, Switzerland, the UK and US, the book tells the complete story of the planning, execution, and resistance to the Final Solution in Italy.

Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution

Europe

The History Press

Mouthful of Rocks: Modern Adventures in the French Foreign Legion

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Atlantic Monthly Pr

The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia What would it be like to be tasked with finding, exhuming from dozens of mass graves, and then identifying the mangled body-parts of an estimated 8,100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia? A leading forensic scientist likened it to "solving the world's greatest forensic science puzzle," and in 1999 one DNA laboratory, run by the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo, decided to do just that. Thirteen years on, the ICMP are the international leaders in using DNA-assisted technology to assist in identifying the thousands of persons worldwide missing from wars, mass human-rights abuses and natural disasters. Christian Jennings, a foreign correspondent and former staffer at the ICMP, tells the story of the organization, and how they are now gathering forensic evidence of those killed in Libya and Iraq, and tracing the victims of brutal regimes in Chile and Colombia. He describes too how they helped identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami , in this moving and fast-paced story about the power of science to bring justice to broken countries. Now used as evidence at war crimes trials in The Hague, the technology described in Bosnia's Million Bones is an amazing story of modern science, politics, and the quest for truth. It is real-life CSI in action.

Bosnia's Million Bones: Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle

St.Martin's Press

In the autumn of 1944, as Patton’s army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task―break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications that stretched across the mountains of northern Italy. Striving to reach Europe’s vulnerable underbelly before the Red Army, these Allied soldiers fought uphill against entrenched enemies in some of the final and most brutal battles of the Second World War. 
In At War on the Gothic Line, veteran war correspondent and historian Christian Jennings provides an unprecedented look inside this unsung but highly significant campaign. Through the eyes of thirteen men and women from seven different countries, Jennings brings history to life as he vividly recounts the courageous acts of valor performed by these soldiers facing overwhelming odds, even as many experienced discrimination at the hands of their allies and superiors.
Witness the courage of a young Japanese-American officer willing to die for those under his command. Lie in wait with a troop of Canadian fur trappers turned snipers. Creep along mountain paths with Indian warriors as they assault fortified positions in the dead of night. Learn to fear a one-armed SS-Major guilty of some of the most atrocious war-crimes in the European theater. All these stories and more pack the pages of this faced-paced, action-heavy history, taking readers inside one of the most important, and least discussed, campaigns of World War Two.

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45

Americas

Thomas Dunne Books

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy 1944–45

At War on the Gothic Line Fighting in Italy 1944-45

BLOOMSBURY

As the Allies stormed across Normandy in late summer 1944, another strategically vital yet unsung campaign was being fought across the mountainous terrain of northern Italy. A vast international army of 12 different nationalities had to break through the Gothic Line, a rugged barrier of German defensive positions that stretched from the Adriatic coast to the Mediterranean.In this fast-paced narrative of a year at war, veteran foreign correspondent and historian Christian Jennings provides an unprecedented look inside these crucial, bloody battles, through the eyes of 13 men and women from seven different countries, bringing history and war to life in this unmissable book.

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Midnight in Some Burning Town : British Special Forces Operations from Belgrade to Baghdad

Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi, and the heart of darkness

Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness

Mouthful of Rocks: Through Africa and Corsica in the French Foreign Legion

Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution

Mouthful of Rocks: Modern Adventures in the French Foreign Legion

Bosnia's Million Bones: Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy 1944–45

At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy 1944–45