Recounts the leading forensic scientist's, examination of the skull of Josef Mengele, his discovery of new evidence about Custer's last stand, and other adventures in forensic anthropology

Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell

Politics & Social Sciences

Stover, Eric

Joyce, Christopher

Social Sciences

Little,Brown & Co

Called the "Sherlock Holmes of bones," Clyde Snow is a forensic anthropologist who solves murders with a tape measure and calipers. He has participated in some of the most sensational investigations of recent years, and WITNESSES FROM THE GRAVE is his engaging, engrossing story. It was Clyde Snow who traveled to Brazil to examine the skeletal remains of the infamous and elusive Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Snow also discovered intriguing new evidence about what lies beneath the battleground of Custer's Last Stand at Little Bighorn. He identified the victims of Illinois serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and he was the driving force in the tireless search for "the disappeared" from Argentina's "dirty war" of the 1970s. More than an expertly spun scientific and political thriller, WITNESSES FROM THE GRAVE is a book of vital importance to anyone concerned with the issues of human rights, criminal justice, and the accuracy of our historical memory. "Fascinating . . . The human subjects of these studies cry out to the reader from every chapter." -- The New York Times Book Review

Anthropology

Ballantine Books

A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo

On a warm spring morning in 1999, in the midst of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian security and paramilitary forces descended on the small village of Cuska, near the western Kosovo city of Pec. Soldiers with painted faces and masks rounded up the population and forced them to assemble in the center of the village. The women, children, and elderly were separated from any men who had not managed to flee. The villagers were threatened and robbed of their money, jewelry, and identification papers. Twenty-nine men were divided into three groups and taken into three separate houses, where they were sprayed repeatedly with automatic weapons. Each house was then set on fire and left to burn. This gripping investigative account of the massacre establishes the truth of what happened in Cuska, deepens our understanding of war crimes, and sheds light on the world of paramilitaries who carry out mass killings of civilians in the name of the state. The events in Cuska are emblematic of the destruction of hundreds of other villages throughout Kosovo. But in this case there was a difference: in each of the three groups of men there was one survivor who managed to crawl from each of the burning houses. They, and many others present that day, told their stories to Human Rights Watch, a research and advocacy organization that monitors abuses in more than seventy countries around the world. Fred Abrahams scanned into his laptop photographs of Serbian security forces apparently left behind when they withdrew from Kosovo, and showed them to victims, who identified the perpetrators. With an essay by Eric Stover and a collection of arresting photographs by Gilles Peress of the exile and return of Kosovar Albanians to their homes and villages, this book presents a riveting, multifaceted story of unmatched depth and complexity. A final section of "self–portraits" taken by Serbian troops and paramilitaries holds the key to understanding how Serb forces were able to overrun so much territory in so little time.

Abrahams, Fred

Abraham, Fred

University of California Press

On a warm spring morning in 1999, in the midst of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian security and paramilitary forces descended on the small village of Cuska, near the western Kosovo city of Pec. Soldiers with painted faces and masks rounded up the population and forced them to assemble in the center of the village. The women, children, and elderly were separated from any men who had not managed to flee. The villagers were threatened and robbed of their money, jewelry, and identification papers. Twenty-nine men were divided into three groups and taken into three separate houses, where they were sprayed repeatedly with automatic weapons. Each house was then set on fire and left to burn. This gripping investigative account of the massacre establishes the truth of what happened in Cuska, deepens our understanding of war crimes, and sheds light on the world of paramilitaries who carry out mass killings of civilians in the name of the state.The events in Cuska are emblematic of the destruction of hundreds of other villages throughout Kosovo. But in this case there was a difference: in each of the three groups of men there was one survivor who managed to crawl from each of the burning houses. They, and many others present that day, told their stories to Human Rights Watch, a research and advocacy organization that monitors abuses in more than seventy countries around the world. Fred Abrahams scanned into his laptop photographs of Serbian security forces apparently left behind when they withdrew from Kosovo, and showed them to victims, who identified the perpetrators.With an essay by Eric Stover and a collection of arresting photographs by Gilles Peress of the exile and return of Kosovar Albanians to their homes and villages, this book presents a riveting, multifaceted story of unmatched depth and complexity. A final section of "self–portraits" taken by Serbian troops and paramilitaries holds the key to understanding how Serb forces were able to overrun so much territory in so little time.

This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration’s war on terror.” Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation’s descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more than sixty former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key government officials, military experts, former guards, interrogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding their capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficulties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning home. Prepared jointly by researchers with the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, and the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Guantánamo Effect contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the U.S.’s commitment to international law during war time.

The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices

History

Fletcher, Laurel E.

Americas

This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation’s descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more than sixty former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key government officials, military experts, former guards, interrogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding their capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficulties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning home. Prepared jointly by researchers with the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, and the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Guantánamo Effect contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the U.S.’s commitment to international law during war time.

Fletcher, Laurel Emile

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world’s most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and America’s pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies—both successful and unsuccessful—that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades—all in the name of international justice and human rights. Hiding in Plain Sight is a companion book to the public television documentary Dead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to The War on Terror. For more information about the documentary, visit www.pbs.org/wnet/dead-reckoning/. And for more information about the Human Rights Center, visit hrc.berkeley.edu.

Peskin, Victor

Koenig, Alexa

Europe

Book by Stover, Eric, Nightingale, Elena

The Breaking of bodies and minds: Torture, psychiatric abuse, and the health professions

Freeman

From the Back Cover: The Breaking of Bodies and Minds documents the alarming collaboration of health professionals in the systematic use of physical and psychological torture in Latin America, the Soviet Union, and other countries. It details the roles these health personnel play in the apparatus of state repression, the activities they engage in, the historical and social contexts in which these abuses take place, and the ways in which such practices are medically "justified."

The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions

W.H.Freeman & Co.

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Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell

Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell

A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo

A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo

The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices

The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

The Breaking of bodies and minds: Torture, psychiatric abuse, and the health professions

The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions