Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

26 reviews

sparanj2's review

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Torture

nicmgray's review

challenging informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Likely going to come back to this book in the future because there’s so much here

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

wtheriac's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This book should be required reading for all Americans. I have a background in history, and yet so much of this book's narrative was new to me. It is an incredibly dark, and depressing story, but it is well written and unflinching in its characterization of the violence that billions of people lived through, and that the United States supported.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Murder, and War

sarahjx's review

informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Rape

hauntedvamphotel's review

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Torture

The author doesn't describe things in too much detail, but due to the nature of the history and the scale of the events most of the things even briefly mentioned feel quite heavy.

kisstheladder's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

estragal's review

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Torture, and War

pookiee's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

I am so much more informed having read this.

Everyone should read this since the effects of USA’s intervention in foreign democracies are still seen everywhere. My fellow Americans especially can benefit from it as it’s a huge part of our recent history that is missing from our curriculum.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, and War

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Rape

roy_gorbison's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Sexual violence, and Torture