war and emergency legislation

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war and emergency legislation

Lincoln's code

the laws of war in American history
2012
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.
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