If you are looking for a book on Genocide it would be hard to find such a quality book - the topic is not a highly common theme to be found in most bookstores, this volume is well worth a go.The book starts introducing Raphael Lemkin's coining of the word "genocide" during WWII, and the UNs adoption of the term in 1946, but looks at a much longer history (of course) when discussing cases from around the world: I was going to list nations addressed but there are just too many. The Americas, Asia, India, Africa, Australia, Japan are all covered to some degree.I should emphasize that the book is academic in nature. A reader should be keen on either developing an understanding of Genocide, Sociology or History. It will only be a riveting read for such an audience and perhaps a reference for other, but because you are searching for this topic (reading this review) you obviously have interest - so I would not hesitate in recommending this book.Other reviewers have rated this book high as well. As of the time of this posting there was one 3 rating - but this had more to do with the shipping of the book and not related to the product itself. Its 4 Star +.