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The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad, enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history.

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The first morally honest, timelessly brilliant history of the killings as a whole. --Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence Essential for understanding the Indonesian tragedy and why humans sometimes do terrible things on a vast scale. --Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles Robinson, a veteran historian of Indonesia. . . . captures the high stakes. --Margaret Scott, New York Review of Books In this masterful account . . . the killings receive the comprehensive, scholarly treatment they have long needed. --Tony Barber, Financial Times An authoritative and harrowing account of the massacres in Indonesia and their aftermath. --Gary Bass, Foreign Affairs One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018 One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History

One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018 One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History

Robinson, a veteran historian of Indonesia. . . . captures the high stakes. -Margaret Scott, New York Review of Books The first morally honest, timelessly brilliant history of the killings as a whole. -Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence Essential for understanding the Indonesian tragedy and why humans sometimes do terrible things on a vast scale. -Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles An authoritative and harrowing account of the massacres in Indonesia and their aftermath. -Gary Bass, Foreign Affairs In this masterly account . . . the killings receive the comprehensive, scholarly treatment they have long needed. -Tony Barber, Financial Times One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018 One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide

In this masterly account . . . the killings receive the comprehensive, scholarly treatment they have long needed. --Tony Barber, Financial Times The first morally honest, timelessly brilliant history of the killings as a whole. --Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence Essential for understanding the Indonesian tragedy and why humans sometimes do terrible things on a vast scale. --Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles Robinson, a veteran historian of Indonesia. . . . captures the high stakes. --Margaret Scott, New York Review of Books An authoritative and harrowing account of the massacres in Indonesia and their aftermath. --Gary Bass, Foreign Affairs One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018 One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History

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Geoffrey B. Robinson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise and ""If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die"" (Princeton).

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