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This work traces the evolution of women's position as victims of war showing also how they have been increasingly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. It documents women's experiences from World War I through to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Includes bibliographical references and index. ix, 377 pages ; 23 cm

Holding the post of US Ambassador to the EU, among others, during the Clinton Administration, Stuart Eizenstat was responsible for negotiating with the Swiss, German, French, and Austrian governments to gain reparations for the victims of WWII, while maintaining positive diplomatic relations. This volume comprises his personal account of his work, which ultimately secured settlements totaling $8 billion ...

15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm ...

This book reveals the pain, the despair, the loneliness of the rape victim, but more than that it is an indictment of an entire group of men who decided consciously and rationally to use rape as a weapon of war and to use it in a widespread fashion. It is a study of the mass rape perpetrated by Serbian forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina, consisting of interviews with victims, comments by experts and discussions ...

Maksudyan approaches the experience of World War I in the Ottoman lands from the perspective of social history, focusing on how total mobilization altered the "lives behind the lines" through the testimony of children. She discusses how issues like lack of education, work force shortages, economic dire straits, ethnic hatred, and nationalism affected children's lives, and how these were partially shaped ...

"This brief volume looks at institutional interactions between the news media (both print and electronic) on the one hand, and government policymakers and humanitarian agencies on the ogher. Case studies from Liberia, northern Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, and Rwanda distill some of the experiences gained from calamities that have elicited widely varying coverage and responses. Acknowledging ...

Met lit.opg. 380 p. ; 22 cm.

Female agency in times of war / Eveline Buchheim & Ralf Futselaar ; 'Falange's female comrades [and] their German and Italian sisters': cross-border affinities between women's Fascist organizations, 1936-1946 / Toni Morant i Ariño ; Tales of a wartime vagabond: Hayashi Fumiko and the travels of Japanese writers in early wartime Southeast Asia / William Bradley Horton ; Aunts at war: loss and guilt ...

The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, ...

Proceedings of an integrated Boerhaave post-graduate course, May 7th, 1988. 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm