Other warfare and defence issues

Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories.

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Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of German midshipman Erich Killinger.

"e;It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.

For anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet.

Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed exceed 6,700 and of US soldiers wounded 50,500.

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child.

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals.

This book provides readers with a critical analysis of the restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities in Namibia, who contend that they should receive reparations for what happened to their ancestors during, and after the 19041908 German-Ovaherero/Nama war.

Prisoners suffer in every conflict, but American servicemen captured during the Korean War faced a unique ordeal.

Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.

One of the world’s leading intellectuals “raises provocative questions about U.

Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today.

This book examines the nature of the international arms trade and the adjustment of the defense industries in the United States and Russia to the post-cold war world.

In science, race can be a useful concept-for specific, limited purposes.

This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs).

“One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict” from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain's response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate humanitarian intervention in overseas crises.

Coming into existence amid a wave of optimism in 2011, South Sudan has since slid into violence and conflict.

This book addresses the inadequacies of just war theory and international law regarding civilian rights, developing new principles of individual restorative justice.

One Marine's gripping story of the bloody battles, the Surge, and the Awakening of Sunni tribes that changed the tide in Iraq's Anbar province Seven minutes into the first patrol a firefight erupts.

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience.

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I've written this book to help you the soldier kill the enemy when you get the chance and, most importantly, come back home in one piece.

The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty became binding international law in late 2014, and although the text of the treaty is a relatively concise framework for assessing whether to authorize or deny proposed conventional weapons transfers by States Parties, there exists controversy as to the meaning of certain key provisions.

The first comprehensive monograph on the defence of superior orders after the second world war, which remains pre-eminent in the field, the republication of this highly-sophisticated work once again makes this book available to scholars and students in the field.

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Churchs role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliationFrom April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade.

The harrowing story based on George Herbert Hill's experience of the Battle of St Quentin during the First World War.

In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milo evi and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict.

This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War.

"e;An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history"e; of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review).

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a range of benefits and services to veterans and eligible dependents who meet certain criteria as authorized by law.

With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland.

In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Internationally recognized for having reinvigorated and redefined his field, distinguished military historian Edward M.

This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain's response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate humanitarian intervention in overseas crises.

In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D.

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide.

This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The companion volume to the groundbreaking TV series, this book tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin.

Life after war is intrinsically political for former combatants.