Parole chiare
Luoghi della memoria in Italia, 1938-2010 – AA.VV.
A cura di Sira Fatucci e Lia Tagliacozzo
Giuntina

Sette autori e un fotografo in viaggio dentro l’Italia di oggi alla scoperta di alcuni luoghi della persecuzione e dello sterminio durante il fascismo e il nazismo.
Non ‘libro della memoria’ per addetti ai lavori ma racconti di autori contemporanei; reportage che aggiungono alla memoria collettiva anche lo sguardo soggettivo, le riflessioni, le emozioni e i malesseri della singola vicenda intellettuale e umana. Sette luoghi simbolo di destini segnati nell’Italia di allora in un libro che è insieme un itinerario nella storia e nella geografia del nostro Paese, uno sguardo sul presente e sul passato, una riflessione sul futuro.

Ron Rosenbaum
How the end begins
The Road to a Nuclear World War III”.  
Simon and Schuster

Rosenbaum, an investigative reporter and Slate columnist, examines the potential for and consequences of nuclear conflict in this sobering, well-argued study. Drawing on decades of study in the field, the author points to a new world that will feature multiple nuclear powers that pose a threat for "touching off a regional nuclear war that could escalate to global scale." Nuclear weapons in the hands of such unstable regimes as Pakistan, North Korea, or Iran is not Rosenbaum's only concern. Moreover, he argues that the Obama administration's new START treaty preserves a dangerous status quo that leaves in place a "rickety" nuclear command and control system with a "one percent per year" risk of failure.

Manfred Gerstenfeld
The abuse of holocaust Memory: distorsions and responses
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Anti-Defamation League

Written with exemplary tenacity and courage, this volume's urgency is proven by its resolve to unmask and denounce the nefarious ugliness of Holocaust abuse and denial. The author, chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, offers a much needed study of the myriad of ways in which the memory of the genocide of the Jews during World War II is being manipulated and distorted in modern discourse. This volume demonstrates that words do matter, and especially language and symbolism surrounding the Holocaust, today's embodiment of supreme evil. Also included are case studies that analyze Holocaust distortion in several European countries and the Muslim world.

Raphael Israeli
The Oslo Idea
Transaction Publishers

The Oslo Idea traces the roots of the current campaign to delegitimize Israel. The author deconstructs the immense illusion of the Oslo peace accords, which initiated the so-called “peace process.” He shows how Oslo lured a naive Israeli leadership into a trap. He shows how outside factors, bent on finding and supporting an evasive peace, have helped perpetuate the fiasco Oslo represents. He shows how Oslo’s supporters have advanced the “peace process” by coaxing and threatening Israel behind the scenes, and binding Israel alone with the Oslo commitments and their derivatives. More importantly, Israeli outlines and analyzes the basic and seemingly unbridgeable points of contention that remain: security, refugees, settlements, water, borders, and the status of Jerusalem itself.

Martin Gilbert
Israel: a history
Barnes & Nobles

Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage for most of this century. For two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the nineteenth century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe.From these beginnings, Martin Gilbert traces the events and personalities that would lead to the sudden, dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948. From that point on, Israel's history has been dominated by conflict: Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, Martin Gilbert weaves together a seamless, page-turning history of a powerful and proud nation,with a new chapter to cover the last ten years, bringing the story right up to date: the continuing conflicts, and the ever-present avenues of hope.