Lists of Bests: KermitTheErin's "Genocide, Child Soldiers, and Other Bad Things" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6552 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. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:42:08 GMT en-us 0 50 33 0 0 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060541644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Power</div> Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010834 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010834"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1582341621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056523878_.jpg" /></a></div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141008253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57136 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57136"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JNZP.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Liev Schreiber</div> I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232671 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232671"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689823959.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Livia Bitton-Jackson</div> My Bridges of Hope http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/560032 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/560032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689848986.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132703970_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Livia Bitton-Jackson</div> When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332674 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332674"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0698115899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114098496_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Kerr</div> Briar Rose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22503 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22503"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765342308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Yolen</div> The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016348 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016348"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142401099.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Yolen</div> Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388019 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388019"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0964712407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056510881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Korenblit</div> In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388026 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388026"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553494112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Opdyke</div> The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008872 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008872"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312263767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109981318_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wladyslaw Szpilman</div> The Pianist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/217465 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/217465"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00009KO09.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8579 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8579"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elie Wiesel</div> Schindler's List http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132931 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132931"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0001E8BG0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Spielberg</div> Schindler's List http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968346 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671516884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114050181_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/999006 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/999006"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415930634.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056441876_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Peterson</div> POV: Lost Boys of Sudan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91529 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91529"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002V7NYI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Shenk</div> The Lost Boys Of Sudan: An American Story Of The Refugee Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293993 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293993"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/082032499X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Bixler</div> Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233194 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/233194"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801444500.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerard Prunier</div> Darfur : A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388037 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388037"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842776967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julie Flint</div> Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388057 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emmanuel Dongala</div> Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257805 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257805"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060798688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Uzodinma Iweala</div> We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312243359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Gourevitch</div> Hotel Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/37700 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/37700"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007R4T3U.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry George</div> An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1095029 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1095029"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670037524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Rusesabagina</div> Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23171 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786715103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roméo Dallaire</div> Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857439 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857439"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1844675424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Melvern</div> In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207244 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207244"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743200071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115355981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Weber</div> Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/551340 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/551340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Hatzfeld</div> Ghosts of Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194397 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194397"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002IQBM6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1112990118_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Barker</div> Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388050 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036874.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zlata Filipovic</div>