The author examines the legality of the Iraqi War through a collection of documents, FBI files, and eyewitness accounts, and maintains that the government suppressed vital information about bombings of civilian targets and treatment of prisoners.
Discusses Nazi Germany's efforts to create a so-called master race by attempting to eliminate not only the Jewish race, but also killing or sterilizing Poles, Russians, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped, and others considered inferior.
Explores genocide and persecution in East Pakistan, including the historical/cultural background of events leading up to and including the 1971 civil war which resulted in an independent Bangladesh, issues surrounding the civil war including, systematic rape, the status of freedom fighters, the issue of refugees and war crime trials.
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.