Encyclopedia of War Crimes & Genocide 2 Volume Set - Hardcover

9780816080830: Encyclopedia of War Crimes & Genocide 2 Volume Set
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Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, Revised Edition examines the contemporary history of crimes against humanity, during both wartime and peacetime. With more than 500 entries, this two-volume A-to-Z encyclopedia covers a wide range of relevant topics, including human rights, war criminals, war crimes, examples of genocide, international organizations and international law concerning war crimes, and much more. This revised edition also includes updated information on recent human rights and war crime trials. It features a primary resources section with documents that are vital to understanding this subject.

Coverage includes:

  • Amnesty International
  • Apartheid
  • Armenian genocide
  • Babi Yar
  • Klaus Barbie
  • Biological weapons
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Cambodia
  • Collateral damage
  • Conflict diamonds
  • Darfur
  • Fran ois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
  • El Salvador
  • Executions
  • Freedom House
  • Geneva Conventions
  • Ghost prisoners
  • Gulags
  • Human Rights Convention
  • Saddam Hussein
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Kosovo
  • My Lai massacre
  • North Korea
  • Piracy and international law
  • Pol Pot
  • Rwanda
  • Shining Path
  • Slavery
  • Taliban
  • Desmond Tutu
  • War on terror
  • Simon Wiesenthal.

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About the Author:
Leslie Alan Horvitz is a freelance writer, as well as the author or editor of many books, including Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC and The Quotable Scientist. Christopher Catherwood is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and currently teaches at the University of Cambridge and the University of Richmond. His publications include Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Iraq.
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This concise, wide-ranging 450-entry resource covers crimes against humanity and peace and human-rights violations. It includes events on all continents, past and present, with entries for perpetrator, activists, countries, organizations, treaties, and terms. The years of birth and, when relevant, death are noted for individuals, along with a brief identifying phrase before the entry text. Entries range from one paragraph to five pages for War criminals of the former Yugoslavia.

The book is accurate when compared with other resources. It is enhanced by a list of entries at the beginning, some black-and-white photos, cross-references within and after entries, further reading at the end of entries (including 2005 titles), eight key primary documents, worldwide resource agencies, a substantial selected bibliography, and an accurate, if incomplete, index.

Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2004) has 350 entries in three volumes. Surprisingly, the Macmillan work does not have entries on Wouter Basson, the South African doctor implicated in germ warfare, or the massacre in Oradour, the worst massacre in France during World War II--both are found in the current volume. This work also has more current information and bibliographies; for example, the entries Darfur and Iraq, human rights violations in post-Saddam are current through 2005 and include 2004 titles among their further readings. The larger work does have a glossary and a filmography, missing from the new resource, as well as 190 pages of primary documents, compared to 53.

The work under review is an excellent choice for public and academic libraries, especially if they do not already own the Macmillan encyclopedia. Arthur Meyers
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  • PublisherFacts on File
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 0816080836
  • ISBN 13 9780816080830
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages694
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