War crimes
By: Claire Welch
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780857336699
Subjects: War crimes; History
Other titles: People.; Daily mirror.
Description: 'War Crimes' takes a detailed and disturbing look at some of the worst atrocities ever committed by humankind, from the Holocaust during the Second World War to the chemical attacks carried out on the people of Syria in the 21st century. It questions whether war crimes might one day become catastrophic events that are firmly confined to the past.
Notes: "From the case files of The people and Daily mirror."
Table of contents: title: The First World War; title: The Second World War; title: The Khmer Rouge; title: Iraq and Saddam Hussein; title: Sri Lankan war crimes; title: Sierra Leone and Liberia; title: The Bosnian War; title: Rwanda genocide; title: The war in Afghanistan; title: The Libyan civil war; title: The Syrian civil war.