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.