This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.
Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as such. War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues examines the types of war crimes and the motivations behind them, as well as the laws that seek to control and abolish these heinous acts.
Within the handbook, centuries of war crimes and genocides are analyzed and catalogued. At the same time, the author offers a history of the development of the rules of war, enabling readers to grasp the importance of such precedent-setting events as the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, and to see the gradual evolution of the laws intended to punish perpetrators and prevent future barbarism.
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- Copies of the original humanitarian treaties: the Civil War Lieber Code, Hague Agreements, and Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949
- Images ranging from a disturbing picture from Life magazine to war crimes photos from the U.S. Military Education and Heritage Center and photos of the Nuremberg Trials
- A robust bibliography designed to provide interested readers with a sweeping description of the most important sources available
Arnold Krammer is professor of history at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. A highly-praised teacher for more than three decades, he has written a number of books in both English and German about the treatment of prisoners of war, alien enemy detainees, and Holocaust victims. His published works include Nazi Prisoners of War in America, Hitler's Last Soldier in America, Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees, and Prisoners of War: A Reference Handbook.
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