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"...an excellent choice for public and academic libraries..." Booklist
"...a well-compiled work and a good ready-reference source...Recommended." Choice
"...in-depth coverage...Recommended." Library Media Connection
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.
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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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