By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. 335 pages : map ; 24 cm.

306 pages : map ; 21 cm.

97 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

The people of Mt. Elgon in Western Kenya have been victimized by both sides in an armed conflict that has pitted ethnic militia against security forces. Since 2006 they have suffered a reign of terror by the insurgent Sabaot Land Defence Force which has killed over 600 people, tortured and raped at will, seized property, and extorted taxes. In March 2008 the Kenyan army was deployed in a joint operation ...

17:31 A clerk reads the list of Civil Parties. 18:07 The clerk lists what Barbie has been doing after the war. 18:14 The clerk discusses the Nazi police organization in France and the establishment of the "Final Solution." 18:23 The clerk lists the sentences against Barbie made in absentia, by the Permanent Military Court of Lyon on April 29, 1952 and on November 25, 1954, condemning Barbie to death. ...

Dat de media een nefaste invloed kunnen hebben zal niemand ontkennen. Wanneer het echter over de genocide in Rwanda gaat (1994), blijkt dat de Westerse media (vnl. British Broadcasting Company) zich bij de beeldvorming ernstig vergaloppeerd hebben. De rol van vrouwen in het conflict werd als passief en ondergaand omschreven, maar de auteur van dit boek verzet zich tegen deze slachtofferrol en wil de ...

"It was a bitterly cold evening, and I had just finished giving a talk that shared the glimmerings of a new research project that looked seriously at how the gas mask, a peculiar object that came into being in 1915, could elucidate what it meant to face total war. At that point, the project had begun by asking why many countries including Britain by 1939 to distribute tens of millions of gas masks ...

In the wake of the genocidal violence that gripped Rwanda in 1994, the United Nations Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rhanda to seek accountability for some of the worst atrocities sicne WWII. Journalist Thierry Cruvellier spent years covering the court's proceedings in detail, interviewing the protagonists and dissecting the dynamics of war crimes justice. -- Back ...

Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot ...

Translation of: Les communistes contre la révolution espagnole. 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Omslagtitel. 16 p. ; 22 cm.

Met lit. opg. 94 p. : ill. ; 20x20 cm.

"It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East-West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this volume Villafaña details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in the 1960, most of its people believed their ...

12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

With: Qué pasa en España? : a los católicos del mundo / por Constantino Bayle. Salamanca : Delegación del Estado para Prensa y Propaganda, 1937. Bound together subsequent to publication. 50 pages ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references. viii, 311 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Currently there is a basic inventory and a card file inventory. A detailed digital inventory is currently (February 2015) in preparation and will be published on the archives website finding aid.

Includes bibliographical references. 335 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Library has : Synthesis report. - v 1 : Historical perspective : some explanatory factors. - v 2 : Early warning and conflict management. - v 3 : Humanitarian aid and effects. - v 4 : Rebuilding post-war Rwanda. Includes bibliographical references. 5 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-208). 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-533). 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.