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The Captive: A Measure of Our Humanity

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Dec 29, 2014 | War

Huffington Post, December 29, 2014 What is it like to live in captivity? How does one survive, physically and psychologically, the experience of the deprivation of freedom? Which captives are remembered, and which forgotten? Events over the past year have brought...

After War’s Trauma, Words Don’t Work

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Nov 11, 2014 | War

CNN.com, November 11, 2014 We celebrate Veterans Day this week, but we have been riding a crest of war remembrance for months now. World War I’s centenary alone has brought forth new books — histories of that war, based on historical documentation and...

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The Captive: A Measure of Our Humanity

After War’s Trauma, Words Don’t Work

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