Contemporary history on trial

Contemporary history on trialAuthor: Harriet Jones ISBN: 9780719091308 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 02 Jan 2014 Pages: 224 Format: Paperback softback Is it right for historians to serve as 'expert witnesses' to past events? Since the end of the Cold War, a series of heated and politicised debates across Europe have questioned the 'truth' about painful episodes in the twentieth century. From the Holocaust to Srebrenica, inquiries and fact finding

Joe Butterfly The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender

And in the final novella

with the reasons for prosecuting them and the defences they put forward

In A World Transformed

the story follows the supposedly 'unsinkable' ship as she embarks on her maiden voyage and ultimately founders in the North Atlantic Ocean

Author: Simon Morden

Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet

forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away

aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff

to create a cinematic masterpiece

he forges on with his tenuous human connections

Over the centuries