War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues

by Arnold Krammer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313359377
• ISBN13: 9780313359378
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"