Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War

by Hugo Slim

Book Overview

This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed. They are policies in war. In meetings or on mobile phones, political and military leaders decide that civilians are appropriate or inevitable targets. The principle that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326541
• ISBN13: 9780199326549
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"