Syllabus
*Preliminaries: The Spanish Civil War* * George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (HBJ)
* George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" in Selected Essays (HBJ)
* Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth (Cambridge)
* V.S. Naipaul, "The Return of Eva Peron"
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The Coup d'Etat*
* Edward Luttwak, Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook (Harvard)
* Bruce W. Farcau, The Coup: Tactics and the Seizure of Power (Praeger)
* Curzio Malaparte, The Technique of the Coup d'Etat
*Indonesia*
* Benedict Anderson, A Preliminary Account of the Indonesian Coup of 1965 (Cornell)
* Max Lane, The Year of Living Dangerously
* Sudhir Kakar, Colors of Violence (Chicago)
*Haiti*
* Mark Danner, "Beyond the Mountains: Haiti & the Legacy of Duvalier," The New Yorker (three parts)
* Mark Danner, "Aristide: The Fall of the Prophet," New York Review of Books (three parts)
* Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season (Simon & Schuster)
* Henri-Rolph Troulliot, Silencing the Past (Beacon)
* Henri-Rolph Troulliot, State and Nation in Haiti (Johns Hopkins)
*Ways of War*
* Xenophon, Anabasis (The Persian Expedition) (Penguin)
* T.S. Eliot, Anabase (translation of St. John Perse)
* Victor Davis Hanson, The Western Way of War (Oxford)
* Count Philippe de Segur, Napoleon's Russian Campaign (Time)
* Stendhal, Charterhouse of Parma (Waterloo Opening)
* Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Borodino)
* Tolstoy, War & Peace (Scythian Warfare Chapter)
* Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage
* John Hersey, Hiroshima, in American Library, War Reporting
*Guerrillas and Counterinsurgency to Vietnam*
* Walter Laqueur (ed.), The Guerrilla Reader (Wildwood House, London)
* Che Guevera, Guerrilla Warfare (Scholarly Resources Inc.)
* Henry Butterfield Ryan, The Fall of Che Guevara (Oxford)
* Lt Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing (Little, Brown)
* Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore (ret.), We Were Soldiers Once... And Young (Harper)
* Neal Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie (Battle of An Bac)
*Central America*
* William Stanley, The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion and Civil War in El Salvador (Temple University Press)
* Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote (Vintage)
* Mark Pedelty, War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (Routledge)
* Richard Sobel (ed.), Public Opinion in US Foreign Policy: The Controversy Over Contra Aid (Rowman & Littlefield)
* Corradi et al, Fear at the Edge: State Terror and Resistance in Lat Amer (Cal) Africa and Genocide
* John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (Norton)
* William Finnegan, A Complicated War (California)
* Fergal Keane, Season of Blood (Penguin)
* Gerard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis (Columbia)
* Alain Destexhe, Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (New York U)
*The United Nations and Rwanda, 1993-1996 (United Nations)*
* Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Journal
* Brenda K. Uekert, Rivers of Blood: A Comparative Study of Government Massacres (Praeger)
* Roy Gutman, A Witness to Genocide (Macmillan)
* Ed Vulliamy, Seasons in Hell (St Martins)
* Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance (Norton)
* Honig and Both, Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime (Penguin)
* Mark Danner, "Bosnia: The Turning Point" and "Bosnia: The Betrayal," New York Review of Books