The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World

By Michael Eliot Howard

Book Overview

This book explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical antiquity to the present, historians discuss the legal and cultural regulation of violence in such areas as belligerent rights, the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the observing of truces and immunities, the use of particular weapons, siege warfare, codes of honour, and war crimes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300058993
• ISBN13: 9780300058994
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"