Ebook: One long night: a global history of concentration camps

For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again.";Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; A Note on Sources; Epigraph; Introduction: Sailing to Guantánamo; Chapter One: Born of Generals; Chapter Two: Death and Genocide in Southern Africa; Chapter Three: The First World War and the War on Civilians; Chapter Four: Gulag Rising; Chapter Five: The Architecture of Auschwitz; Chapter Six: Increments of Evil; Chapter Seven: Stepchildren of the Gulag; Chapter Eight: Echoes of Empire; Chapter Nine: Bastard Children of the Camps; Chapter Ten: Guantánamo Bay and the World; Photos; Acknowledgments; About the Author.