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Blood Diamonds

2012-04-03 History
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Release : 2012-04-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Blood Diamonds by : Greg Campbell

Download or read book Blood Diamonds written by Greg Campbell. This book was released on 2012-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies. These repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the consequences of overlooking this African tragedy are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global. Updated with a new epilogue.

Blood Diamonds

2003-04-14 Fiction
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Release : 2003-04-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Blood Diamonds by : Jon Land

Download or read book Blood Diamonds written by Jon Land. This book was released on 2003-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about an Israeli and a Palestinian who try to prevent an African warlord's terrorist plot against the United States.

Blood on the Stone

2010-08-15 History
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Release : 2010-08-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Blood on the Stone by : Ian Smillie

Download or read book Blood on the Stone written by Ian Smillie. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s diamond wars took four million lives. ‘Blood on the Stone’ tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous, describing the great diamond cartel and a dangerous pipeline leading from war-torn Africa to the glittering showrooms of Paris, London and New York. It describes the campaign that forced an industry and more than 50 governments to create a global control mechanism, and it provides a sobering prognosis on its future.

From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process

2010 Political Science
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Release : 2010
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process by : Franziska Bieri

Download or read book From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process written by Franziska Bieri. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its importance in international affairs, the Kimberley Process remains understudied in academia. Franziska Bieri's book provides the first comprehensive account of the Kimberley Process and is the first to reveal how NGOs have become critical actors in their own right, possessing the ability to directly influence policies, even at the level of international organizations.

Blood from a Stone

2015-06-23 History
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Release : 2015-06-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Blood from a Stone by : Richard Hammer

Download or read book Blood from a Stone written by Richard Hammer. This book was released on 2015-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.

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