Michael Byers
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Through a series of case studies ranging from the 1837 Caroline incident to the abuse of detainees in Ghraib prison in Iraq, the author examines the history of armed conflict and international law. Byers explores the controversies that surround Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq and the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court....
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"'To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,' recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. 'They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.' Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced...
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