Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
I You We Them : Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today - Dan Gretton

I You We Them

Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today

By: Dan Gretton

eBook | 14 November 2019

At a Glance

eBook


$18.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $4.75 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making.

'The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.' Hannah Arendt

I You We Them is a study of the psychology of some of the least visible perpetrators of crimes against humanity, the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the last two hundred years. It is also an exploration of corporate responsibility and personal culpability today, connecting the bureaucratic blindness that created desk killing to the same moral myopia that exists now in the calm, clean offices of global capitalism.

It is a journal of discovery, based on decades of research, interviews with hundreds of participants, and extensive first-hand experience. It encompasses extended investigations into a number of specific cases, moving from the brutalities of Empire to the scorched oil fields of the Niger Delta, from the industrial complex of Auschwitz to the empty sites of the Bosnian genocide; bearing witness, recording, and attempting to understand.

It is a synthesis of history, reportage and memoir, a sustained meditation on the nature of responsibility and injustice, and a book that will change the way we think about our past, present and future.

'I YOU WE THEM is a uniquely gripping journey around the landscapes of mass murder.'
-Philippe Sands, author of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Industry Reviews
"A complex and exceptional book. Gretton's determination to bear witness so long after the events themselves does not diminish the power of his story. On the contrary his decision to make it personal intensifies the impact... The book highlights how society in general is susceptible to a form of collective amnesia, a wish not to confront the troubling details in its past. John Berger observed that "the role of capitalism is to destroy history... to orientate all effort and imagination to that which is about to occur". Dan Gretton's profound moral effort in this book is a massive bulwark against that possibility and a guarantee that the truth will be heard."
on

More in War Crimes

Facing the Torturer - Francois Bizot

eBOOK

Confronting Evil : Assessing the Worst of the Worst - Bill O'Reilly

eBOOK

A Thousand Miracles - Theodor Meron

eBOOK

RRP $35.19

$31.99

Gaza : The Story of a Genocide - Fatima Bhutto

eBOOK

RRP $22.74

$18.99

16%
OFF
Holocaust and Hope : Literature, Testimony, Media - Geoffrey Hartman

eBOOK

Displaced in Gaza : Stories from the Gaza Genocide

eBOOK

The Scattering - Lauri Kubuitsile

eBOOK

RRP $25.29

$24.99

A Philosophy of War : Why We Fight - Frédéric Gros

eBOOK

RRP $17.06

$13.99

18%
OFF