15 best-selling history books like The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) by Geoffrey B. Robinson

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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)

By: Geoffrey B. Robinson

4.42

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass …

If you liked the history plot in The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) by Geoffrey B. Robinson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Beauty Is a Wound

By: Eka Kurniawan , Annie Tucker

4.05

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and roman… read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • asia
"You don't need to belong to one another in order to love one another."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"Semua perempuan itu pelacur, sebab seorang istri baik-baik pun menjual kemaluannya demi mas kawin dan uang belanja, atau cinta jika itu ada."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

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2. Woman at Point Zero

By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata

4.19

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more

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"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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3. Dalih Pembunuhan Massal: Gerakan 30 September dan Kudeta Suharto

By: John Roosa , Hersri Setiawan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Buku ini merupakan catatan paling detil dan dengan penelitian terbaik tentang kejadian-kejadian 196… read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide

By: Karnig Panian , Simon Beugekian

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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6. The End of Sukarno: A Coup That Misfired: A Purge That Ran Wild

By: John Hughes , John Hughes

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

This book, with a new introduction by the author, is the story of the dramatic events that brought … read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation

By: Tim Hannigan

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • indonesian literature
  • asia
  • nonfiction

8. The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

By: Susan Shapiro , Kenan Trebincevic

3.40

Format: 320 pages,

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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9. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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10. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By: Loung Ung

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

11. The Army and Politics in Indonesia

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A comprehensive description of the Indonesian Army's history of political involvement. Crouch's in… read more

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12. Capitalism: A Ghost Story

By: Arundhati Roy

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farm… read more

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13. Laut Bercerita

By: Leila S. Chudori

4.62

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Jakarta, Maret 1998 Di sebuah senja, di sebuah rumah susun di Jakarta, mahasiswa bernama Biru La… read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • politics
"Matilah engkau mati kau akan lahir berkali-kali..."

-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

"Rasa ingin tahu adalah kualitas terbaik dalam jurnalisme."

-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

"....jangan menganggap bahwa hidup adalah serangkaian kekalahan."

-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

"Peristiwa yang tak nyaman atau menyakitkan tidak perlu dihapus, tetapi harus diatasi."

-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

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14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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15. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Rethinking Southeast Asia)

By: Jess Melvin

4.56

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulte… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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17. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld

By: David Van Reybrouck

4.54

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia by Ben Bland

18. Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia

By: Ben Bland

3.85

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

From a riverside shack to the presidential palace, Joko Widodo surged to the top of Indonesian poli… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)

By: Geoffrey B. Robinson

4.42

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass … read more

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  • international relations
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  • world history
  • indonesian literature
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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20. Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia (Critical Human Rights)

By: John Roosa

4.85

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In 1965–66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of th… read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 by Bradley R. Simpson

21. Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968

By: Bradley R. Simpson

3.99

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economis… read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • asia
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13 Top politics books like The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) by Geoffrey B. Robinson

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3.64

Transform Your Habits

In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

Richard Lloyd Parry

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The End of Sukarno: A Coup That Misfired: A Purge That Ran Wild

John Hughes , John Hughes

3.77

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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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4.05

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Eka Kurniawan , Annie Tucker

4.05

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Ika Natassa

4.05

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Tere Liye

4.36

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4.00

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