military law

Explains why the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II, features excerpts from speeches, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials that provide insights into events, and includes photographs and opinions from historians.

A history of the laws of war in American history describing the code Lincoln issued in the Civil War, its rules on torture, prisoners of war, assassination, and more that quickly became foundations of the modern laws of war and today's Geneva Conventions.

Recounts the events of April 26, 1937, when the ancient Basque hilltop town of Guernica was destroyed by German Condor bombs in what is the century's first instance of strategic, total warfare.