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The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Trauma and Truth examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today.

One of the many military events not widely recalled each year is the Kibeho Massacre, where a massacre of over 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons occurred, twelve months after the Rwandan genocide which saw upwards of 1,000,000 slaughtered.The Australian contingent that was on the ground at the time comprised a miniscule number of professionals when accounting for the overall number of 120,000 IDPs situated in the camp at Kibeho: for those that can recall, it was here that the Virgin Mary did appear, and in 2001 Kibeho was added to the list of approved Marian apparition sites.What you read here is based on actual events, occurring between April 17th and May 9th, 1995.During the deployment of Australian Infantry to Rwanda, whose main task was to provide security for the contingent, many a variety of task was met: carrying stretchers through the AUSMED hospital, escorting dental technicians, medics, and other specialised personnel through the winding hills of this land-locked country, and conducting security pickets on key installations to which were their sole responsibility. They never expected to be confronted by the slaughter of more than 10,000 men, women, children and babies. The basic infantryman was trained and prepared more for a situation as that presented by Vietnam, scaled down versions of the Falkland War and Somalia, or even a prolonged campaign against highly trained foes. But in Rwanda... no one could fathom that their worst nightmare may actually bear its rancid fruit of toxicity.

Landschaften wie Galizien, Bessarabien, Podolien oder die Bukowina finden sich heute auf keiner Landkarte mehr. Dort, im Osten Europas, in einem Gürtel zwischen Baltikum und Schwarzem Meer, lebte einst die Mehrheit der europäischen Juden. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurden sie von den deutschen Besatzern und ihren Helfern nahezu vollständig ermordet. Polen, die drei baltischen Länder, Belarus, die Ukraine, Moldawien - die Geschichte Osteuropas ist auch eine lange Geschichte nach Unabhängigkeit strebender Völker und fortgesetzter Versuche von Imperien, sie sich untertan zu machen. Der Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine hat das schmerzhaft in Erinnerung gerufen. Diese Region sich überschneidender imperialer Interessen war jahrhundertelang das Kerngebiet des europäischen Judentums. Immer wieder Verfolgungen ausgesetzt, hat hier jüdisches Leben einen prägenden Beitrag zur Entwicklung nicht nur der östlichen Hälfte des Kontinents geleistet, ehe es mit dem deutschen Überfall im Zweiten Weltkrieg fast vollständig vernichtet wurde. Doch seine Spuren sind noch immer zu finden, und seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion kann auch wieder offen über sie gesprochen werden.Der Kölner Fotograf und Blogger Christian Herrmann ist solchen Spuren in zahlreichen Reisen nachgegangen. Was er vorgefunden hat, sind zahllose verwilderte Friedhöfe, zerstörte oder zweckentfremdete Synagogen, Spuren von Haussegen an den Türrahmen - aber auch Anzeichen dafür, dass das jüdische Erbe allmählich seinen Platz in den neuen nationalen Narrativen findet.Mit Beiträgen von Samuel D. Gruber und Rolf Sachsse.

"In the year 2019 Rwanda marked twenty-five years after the genocide against the Tutsi. Sadly, Catholic priests and nuns were complicit - or even participated in the killing of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis. Thousands of people were slaughtered in Catholic Churches where they took refuge. For example, 5000 people are estimated to have been killed at the Ntarama Catholic Church in August 1994. In March of 2017, Pope Francis issued an apology, remarking that "the sins and failings of the Church and its members," had "disfigured the face" of Catholicism." This statement recognized that the Catholic Church's role in the genocide has implicated the entire Church and is an invitation to reimagine the very essence of the meaning of the Church, theology in its multiple dimensions, the missionary enterprise, the mission of the Church, and the place of human dignity in the Catholic faith. The task of rethinking what it means to be the Church and restoring fraternal identity as Christians in post-genocide Rwanda is thus crucial if theology is to make sense again. This is particularly imperative in as much as theology is compelled to reflect upon the very evils that have disfigured the Church's image and people's identity, namely the evils of sin, suffering, the indifference of bystanders, the increasing number of genocide deniers, the complexity of memory, the lack of credible and prophetic leadership that invites a new way of thinking about theology. This book brings together bishops, theologians, historians, and other scholars to reflect on how the Rwandan Catholic Church can restore fundamental peace and rebuild lasting reconciliation"--

A collection of writings from one of the anti-Apartheid struggle's major revolutionary public intellectuals

February 2022, Nora Krug connected with 'K.', a Ukrainian journalist and 'D.', a Russian artist and communicated with each of them individually, condensing their answers into a narrative and then created illustrations for each entry. The personal accounts chronicle the first year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an intimate, epistolary format.

Dog Tag Inc. is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help veterans, their spouses, and those who serve as their caregivers reintegrate into civilian life. The organization runs the Dog Tag Inc. Fellowship Program, a five-month entrepreneurial fellowship program designed to enhance reintegration into civilian entrepreneurial and employment opportunities. This report describes research to help Dog Tag Inc. better understand how its fellowship program shapes the careers and life trajectories of its alumni. The authors first conducted focus groups and interviews with program alumni to better understand their experience with the fellowship. Using this information, as well as existing quantitative data on Dog Tag Inc. alumni outcomes, the authors worked with Dog Tag Inc. to revise the organization's existing alumni survey to more adequately and meaningfully capture the longitudinal impacts of the Dog Tag Inc. Fellowship Program at scale. They then fielded two waves of the revised survey in 2020 and 2021, the results of which are presented here and complemented by qualitative data. In addition to providing valuable information to Dog Tag Inc. as the organization continues to expand and refine its programming, these findings are likely to be of interest to other organizations serving veterans, spouses, and caregivers.

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s and forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Oleksandr Shums¿kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary, was one of the few to have refused and to protest. Stalin's Liquidation Game opens a window into understanding Soviet repression in the Ukraine.

History of the personnel of The Army Ground Forces Band and The US Army Field Band from 1946 to 2022.

What do Germans mean when they say "never again"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, showing how these events transformed the meaning of the Holocaust in Germany, inspired partial remilitarization, and changed the country's relationship to refugees fleeing war-torn regions.

After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald." She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the most sensational crimes ascribed to her by prosecutors and newspapers went unproven. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution.

Trevor Bensons tjeneste som akutlæge i Afghanistan afsluttes brat af en granateksplosion med ødelæggende konsekvenser. I jagten på fred i sindet bosætter han sig sommeren over i det faldefærdige hus, han har arvet efter sin højtelskede bedstefar. Som gæst i den søvnige sydstatsby tiltrækkes han straks af sherifassistent Natalie Masterson, men også hun bærer på sår fra fortiden.Trevors liv kompliceres yderligere af bedstefarens venskab med den tvære teenager Callie, og i forsøget på at optrevle både Natalie og Callies hemmeligheder må Trevor snart sande, at han, for at finde hjem, må følge det spor, der får hjertet til at banke stærkest.Nicholas Sparks er blandt de mest elskede forfattere til den moderne kærlighedsfortælling, og han har gennem årtier forført læsere kloden over med sine uforglemmelige historier om svimlende forelskelse, tragiske menneskeskæbner og bånd, der aldrig kan brydes.