Crimes of War
Subtitle: What the Public Should Know
Contributors: David Rieff (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393047462
First sentence: Until 1945, an act of war in the traditional and historical sense was understood to mean any act by a State that would effectively terminate the normal international law of peacetime and activate the international law of war.