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KermitTheErin's "Genocide, Child Soldiers, and Other Bad Things"

A compilation of some of the best books I’ve read/ movies I’ve seen on genocide, particularly the Holocaust and Rwanda, with a little bit of child soldiers, Sudan, and Bosnia thrown in for good measure.
1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
  
2. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
  
3. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport  
4. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
5. Everything Is Illuminated
by Liev Schreiber
  
6. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
  
7. My Bridges of Hope
by Livia Bitton-Jackson
  
8. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by Judith Kerr
  
9. Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
  
10. The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jane Yolen
  
11. Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
by Michael Korenblit
  
12. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Irene Opdyke
  
13. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  
14. The Pianist  
15. The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
by Elie Wiesel
  
16. Schindler's List
by Steven Spielberg
  
17. Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
  
18. Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
by Scott Peterson
  
19. POV: Lost Boys of Sudan
by Jon Shenk
  
20. The Lost Boys Of Sudan: An American Story Of The Refugee Experience
by Mark Bixler
  
21. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
by Gerard Prunier
  
22. Darfur : A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
by Julie Flint
  
23. Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel
by Emmanuel Dongala
  
24. Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.)
by Uzodinma Iweala
  
25. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
  
26. Hotel Rwanda
by Terry George
  
27. An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina
  
28. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire
  
29. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide
by Linda Melvern
  
30. In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land
by Bill Weber
  
31. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
by Jean Hatzfeld
  
32. Ghosts of Rwanda
by Greg Barker
  
33. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition
by Zlata Filipovic
  
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Created by KermitTheErin on May 23, 2006.