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Websites
Crimes of War
www.crimesofwar.org/
The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers,
and scholars who seek to raise awareness of the laws of war and of the
human consequences. Contains archives, analysis, links and special reports.
The Sudan Monitor
www.ned.org/grantees/shra/3-4-98/toc.html
This online newsletter from the Sudan Human Rights Association reveals
the plight of over 50,000 war refugees who are forced into resorting
to theft, robbery and prostitution for survival.
The Independent: How Sarajevo has Become the Springboard into Europe
www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/feb01/hed2561.shtml
A feature by Robert Fisk of The Independent on how crime is
flourishing in Sarajevo, post war.
Yazuka
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/stn/1997/pirn9708.htm
Article on the activities of the secret Japanese society, the Yazuka
and its foundations in World War II.
The Lost Masterpieces
www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1997/0316/index.html
How artworks were plundered by Nazis in the Second World War and
turned up in French galleries, as well as the search for the wealth of
Jewish holocaust victims.
American Hellenic Institute
www.ahiworld.com/070198.html
The Institute calls for investigation into Turkey’s war profiteering
and Nazi collaboration.
Holocaust Art Restitution Project
www.lostart.org
Website offers details of the history of works stolen, with a list
of artwork, information on case histories and legal histories as well
as sponsor information, grant requests and related resources.
Books
The Crimes of War: What the public should know by Roy Gutman
and David Rieff (WW Norton, 1999) £8.99
Governments are still reluctant to demand accountability for even the grossest
violations of international law. Gives an overview of the development of humanitarian
law.
Love Thy Neighbor: A story of war by Peter Maass (Vintage, 1997)
US Edition only, available through online bookshops.
The nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's images – battlefield doctor
performing without anaesthetic, schoolchildren in Sniper Alley, the profiteers – the
minefields of modern war.
Sex in Public by Eric Naiman (Princeton University Press, 1999)
£15.95
The Soviet Union during the 1920s, its preoccupations with crime, disease and,
especially, sex.
Literature and Culture in Modern Britain Vol 2: 1930-1955 by
Gary Day (Longman, 1997) £16.99
The Second World War and following years saw the establishment of an interventionist
state, mass culture, and celebration of consumerism. It examines the art, culture
and technology of the time.
Cold War Culture by Richard A Schwartz (Facts on File Inc, 2000)
£21.50
How the Cold War shaped America.
Sexuality and War: Literary mask of the Middle East by Evelyne
Accad
(New York University Press, 1992) £15
The link between war and sexuality based on 12 years of interviews and study
of six novels.
War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East by Steven
Heydemann (University of California Press, 2000) £17.95
The Middle East in the 20th century has been profoundly shaped by war. International
scholars explore how.
Forced Migration and Scientific Change by Mitchell G Ash and
Alfons Sullner (Cambridge University Press, 1996) £55
Looks at whether Jewish scholars and scientists forced out of Nazi Germany
brought about significant scientific change.
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's story of prostitution and slavery
under the Japanese Military by Maria Rosa Henson and Yuki
Tanaka (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999) £13.95
In April 1943, 15-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers
occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution. This is her story.
Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the US Military in Asia by
Saundra Pollock Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus (The New Press, 1994)
£19.95
Even in peacetime women are exploited by military forces. Women of bar areas
around US bases in Okinawa, the Philippines and the southern part of Korea
speak out.
The British Army and the People's War 1939-1945 by Jeremy A Crang
(Manchester University Press, 2000) £35
How three million recruits from all social classes and professions during the
Second World War changed the army.
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