A scrap of paper : breaking and making international law during the Great War /

Hull, Isabel V.,

A scrap of paper : breaking and making international law during the Great War / Isabel V. Hull. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue : what we have forgotten -- Belgian neutrality -- The "Belgian atrocities" and the laws of war on land -- Occupation and the treatment of enemy civilians 191-279 -- Great Britain and the blockade -- Breaking and making international law : the blockade, 1915-1918 -- Germany and new weapons : the submarine, zeppelin, poison gas, flame thrower -- Unrestricted submarine warfare -- Reprisals : prisoners of war and allied aerial bombardment -- Conclusion.



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War (International law)--History--20th century.
Humanitarian law--History--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Law and legislation.


Electronic Books.

KZ6795 / .S373 2013