The toll of America’s gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost—more than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive. —Shot and Forgotten, The Trace “Nearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year. This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but it doesn’t have to be this way.” —Gabrielle Giffords The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of survivors’ visible and invisible wounds from school shootings, attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably, suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this collection, editors Loren Kleinman, Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips and Lonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the trauma left in its wake. Through personal narratives and select personal photos, the wounded tell a story that’s forgotten when the cameras go away. This collection will be of interest to first responders, officers, therapists, medical practitioners, and educators.

Public attention and scrutiny has dimmed following most of these notable, tragic and publicized events, deaths and murders. Each included historical profile spawns a secondary tale concerning the surviving victims, intimate family coping with loss and the consequential aftermath. The edition highlights sixty momentous and obscure calamities and their profound effect on those left behind. In some instances the immediate trauma and impact has become lethal. In other instances, the road towards recovery has generated a profound influence on others. These accompanying survivor biographies are equally compelling and represent an important continuity to a larger perspective of understanding. Volume One is a compilation of sixty combined well-documented and obscure biographies. They include: Jimi Hendrix’s Accidental Overdose and The Sole Witness James Dean’s Fatal Collision and the Two Survivors The Decadent Decline of Doors’ Lead Singer Jim Morrison and his companion Pam Courson The Zodiac Serial Killer: Taunting Authorities Lady Diana Spencer’s Fatal Paris Crash Ted Bundy: The Man Who Lived To Kill Women Singer Kurt Cobain’s Prelude and Final Act Actor Errol Flynn’s Final Debauchery Gangster Al Capone’s desperate venereal disease treatment and his Chicago Outfit gang The Washington D.C. Beltway Victims and Survivors The Enduring Art Legacy of Pablo Picasso Gary Hart’s Aborted Presidential Campaign Writer Oscar Wilde’s fall and the Consequences To His Immediate Family The Curse That Befell Abraham Lincoln’s box office companions following his assassination The Green River Killer and His Naive Wife The Corruptible Legacy of the Marquis de Sade and his wife’s penitence The Two Wives Behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise and Fall and his son The Celebrated Trip to Return To America and Return to France by General Lafayette Congressman Daniel Sickles Killing Inside Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park over his wife’s Infidelity The Unmarked Grave For Assassin John Wilkes Booth Marion Clover Adams cursed by the constraints of her gender and husband Writer Henry Adams Theo and Johanna Van Gogh’s Contribution to making Vincent Van Gogh internationally renowned The Adventurous Fury and Flameout of Writer Jack London and wife Charmian Kittredge-London The Debilitating Demise of Woodrow Wilson and his surviving wife Edith Bolling-Wilson The Biddle Brothers Pittsburgh Prison Escape and Accomplice Kate Soffel Murderous Revenge and Suicides Spawned By The Brides of Christ Cult The Duchess of Windsor’s Upbringing and life following the death of King Edward VIII A Tragic Bohemian Amedeo Modigliani and his distraught Mistress Jeanne Hebuterne President Warren Harding and his vindictive wife Florence The Philosophical Contraction of Jean-Paul Sartre and Literary Comrade Simone de Beauvoir Gertrude Stein’s Fawning Over Nazism and her neglected companion Alice B. Toklas The Pathetic Final Acts For F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his intimate Associate Clyde Tolson American Wartime Spy Virginia Hall’s Posthumous Recognition Yves Klein Obsession With Cobalt Blue and Fatal Film Viewing Edwin Pratt’s Seattle Civil Rights Murder Presidential Campaigner George Wallace’s Wounding and Survival Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Youthful Stolen Legacies Spiro Agnew’s Vice Presidential Resignation Dr. Marcus Foster Assassination and Aide Robert Blackburn’s survival The Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide? A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of Tamara Rand A Baltimore City Councilman’s Death Amidst A Shooting Rampage Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children Mulugeta Seraw fatal beating by Portland skinheads Doug Carlile’s Murder For Hire Over Oil Field Leases Brittany Maynard’s Death With Dignity Crusade and Aftermath And Numerous Additional Stories…

"Richard Lukas presents the eyewitness accounts of these and other Polish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Germans. They bear witness to unspeakable horrors endured by those who were tortured, forced into slavery, shipped off to concentration camps, and even subjected to medical experiments. Their stories provide a somber reminder that non-Jewish Poles were just as likely as Jews to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, who viewed them with nearly equal contempt.".

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings. This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world. This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man's curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.

"The two world wars were undoubtedly two of the most catastrophic events in human history, not just for those who actually fought in them, but for untold millions of civilians. And even though the wars' superlativeness is unquestioned, our understanding of exactly how bad the civilian costs were is limited. Although the numbers are better for the two wars than for most earlier wars, gaps and uncertainties remain. States went to great lengths to record military casualties, but civilian fatalities often went uncounted, and figures were often deliberately obscured. In this book, renowned economic historian Cormac O Grada aims to set the record straight, establishing a figure for civilian fatalities that reveals much about the nature of modern war. The book builds on earlier estimates of casualties from a range of causes, some reliable, some approximate at best, and warns against spurious precision when approximations are impossible. For example, while the human toll of the Jewish Holocaust is generally agreed to have been about 6 million, the tolls of two other war genocides, those of the Armenian community in Turkey during World War I and of the European Roma community during World War II, cannot be determined with any precision. (Scholarly estimates of these range from 0.6 to 1.2 million, and from "at least 130,000" to "between 250,000 and 500,000.") During World War II Chinese civilians faced both a civil war and Japanese occupation, and no estimate of the resulting civilian deaths, which range from an implausibly low 2.5 million to 20 million, is reliable. The book shows that the single biggest cause of civilian deaths during the two wars were famines, some of which are familiar and well-documented, while others have attracted research only recently, and a few await systematic analysis. The book covers these as well as genocides, particularly the Jewish Holocaust, and deaths from aerial bombing, and shows how in each of these categories the numbers have been controversial and contested. Most of the book deals with death, but it contains accounts too of the tens of millions of displaced persons and refugees and forced labourers, of civilian trauma, and of sexual violence and other atrocities. In the end O Grada argues that the two world wars cost at least 45 to 50 million civilian lives, almost double the cost in military lives. Addressing the uncertainties and inaccuracies in civilian casualties, the book shows the failings of international law and gives a vital and harrowing understanding of the true cost of war"--

One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of this seminal event and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. In keeping with the book's title, the essays offer competing interpretations of the Kwangju Uprising, yet together provide the most thorough English-language treatment to date of the multifaceted, sweeping significance of this seminal event.

Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide examines why and how children were mistreated during genocides in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among the cases examined are the Australian Aboriginals, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Mayans in Guatemala, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the genocide in Darfur. Two additional chapters examine the issues of sexual and gender-based violence against children and the phenomenon of child soldiers. Following an introduction by Samuel Totten, the essays include: "Australia’s Aboriginal Children"; "Hell is for Children"; "Children: The Most Vulnerable Victims of the Armenian Genocide"; "Children and the Holocaust"; "The Fate of Mentally and Physically Disabled Children in Nazi Germany"; "The Plight and Fate of Children vis-à-vis the Guatemalan Genocide"; "The Plight of Children During and Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide"; "Darfur Genocide"; "Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Children during Genocide"; and, "Child Soldiers." Contributors include: Colin Tatz, Henry C. Theriault, Asya Darbinyan, Rubina Peroomian, Jeffrey Blutinger, Amanda Grzyb, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Sara Demir, Hannibal Travis, and Samuel Totten. The editor and several of the contributors have personally investigated and witnessed the aftermath of genocidal campaigns.

Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original perspectives by critically investigating the hitherto unexplored vicissitudes of memory in the interrelated spheres of personal, communal, medical, and cultural histories in different national and transnational settings across the globe. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the 'Spanish' Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory.