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A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evilSprawling and illuminating, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the last century. From Albert Speer's Nazi complicity to Royal Dutch Shell's role in the murder of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Gretton probes the depths of the figure "who, by giving orders, uses paper or a phone or a computer to kill, instead of a gun."Over the past twenty years, Gretton has interviewed survivors and perpetrators, and poured over archives and thousands of pages of testimony. But I You We Them is as much about understanding the psychology of desk killers as it is about the journey Gretton took to do so.