Название: Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
Автор: John Fabian Witt
Издательство: Free Press
ISBN: 1416569839
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 512
Размер: 25,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War.