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敗戦直後，GHQ占領下に開所したスガモプリズン．外の世界が大きく移り変わるなか，戦犯たちは獄中で何を思い，何を見つめていたのか．戦争裁判の実態，刑務所管理の構造，戦犯の自治や言論活動，そして朝鮮人・台湾人戦犯の問題．

1937年，日本軍は中国での戦線を拡大し，戦争の泥沼に突き進んだ．その一大汚点としての南京事件．殺戮・略奪・強姦の蛮行はいかなるプロセスで生じ，推移し，どんな結果を招いたのか．

戦争、内戦、テロ……。なぜ今、中東地域で惨禍が繰り返されるのか？ その理由を、パレスチナやイスラエルの歴史、数次にわたる中東での戦争から、詳細にわかりやすく解説。

世界で今も戦争が続くなか，日本でも有事の可能性が盛んに論じられている．もし日本が武力攻撃を受けた場合，平穏な日常はどうなるのか．緊急事態に国は私たちを守ってくれるのだろうか．

占領、封鎖、爆撃、飢餓…。あらゆる人道的危機に苦しみ続けるパレスチナ。ガザやヨルダン川西岸地区に一体何がおきているのか、なぜこんな事態になってしまったのか、私達に何ができるのか。

一九九一年の金学順さんの告発に衝撃をうけた著者は関係文書を丹念に収集分析し，九五年刊行の『従軍慰安婦』で「慰安婦制度」の主体が軍であったことを明らかにした．しかし「軍慰安婦」たちの苦難を否定する声は今も後を絶たない．

Mentre lo scenario geopolitico diventava di anno in anno più complesso, violento e preoccupante, in Italia si è fatta strada una generazione di giornalisti, scrittori, reportagisti che ha scritto «di guerra» in maniera nuova, più intensa, vibrante, attraverso generi e media nuovi. Paolo Giordano, che da scrittore ha fatto i conti con il mondo mentre cambiava attraverso i suoi reportage in Ucraina, Israele e altri territori più o meno caldi, ha raccolto intorno a sé alcune delle migliori firme che hanno raccontato, con articoli, reportage, podcast, la guerra oggi.

国際紛争研究者が見て、感じ、考えた和解の現場殺しあいをしてきた人々は、どのように仲直りをするのか。闘いを通じて増殖され蓄積された憎しみ、悲しみ、怒り、憤りを当事者たちはどう処理するのか。

Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" - Smithsonian.

In this urgent book, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward provide a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to Gaza's political history. Combining a nuanced narrative with hard-hitting reflections from everyday Gazans, the book tells the dynamic story of how Gaza became an epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a pivotal hot-spot in the region.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US...

Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments in the name of science and Japan's wartime chemical and biological warfare research. Author Hal Gold draws upon a wealth of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.

Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones.

The Wake Up Call examines the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack when Hamas and Gaza terrorists breached Israel's borders, brutally murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 others. This attack marked the worst security breach in Israel’s history. “10.7” ignited a global surge of antisemitism, spreading across university campuses and city streets worldwide.

WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS...

Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of true stories from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at...

A candid memoir of global statecraft during one of the most consequential eras of recent history INTERVENTIONS is the inside story of a world at the brink. After forty years of service in the United Nations, former Secretary-General Kofi Annan shares his unique perspective of the terrorist...