Description
Author: Howard, Michael C. Andreopoulos, George J., & Shulman, Mark R. (eds.)
Publisher: Yale U. P.
Place: New Haven
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: As New
Category: Military Reference
Year: 1994
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: vii + 303pp., notes, index, Explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical antiquity to the present, historians discuss the legal and cultural regulation of violence in such areas as belligerent rights, the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the observing of truces and immunities, the use of particular weapons, siege warfare, codes of honour, and war crimes
