Research Catalog

Title

War crimes and the American conscience. Edited by Erwin Knoll and Judith Nies McFadden.

Publication

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]

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Additional Authors

• Knoll, Erwin
• Nies, Judith, 1941-
• Knoll, Erwin.
• Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility (1970 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xiv, 208 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Consists of an edited transcript of the proceedings of the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, Washington, D.C., 1970, and supplementary material contributed by the participants.

Subject

• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Atrocities
• War crimes

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Consists of an edited transcript of the proceedings of the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, Washington, D.C., 1970, and supplementary material contributed by the participants.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Law, morality and war : the ideals of Nuremberg -- Technology and American power : the changing nature of war -- Americans in Vietnam : the lessons of My Lai -- Individual conscience : the moral challenge -- Appendixes: Principles of Nuremberg -- Excerpts from Department of the Army Field Manual, The law of land warfare -- Treaties to which the United States is a party -- Excerpts from the Supreme Court opinion in the matter of Yamashita -- Majority judgment of the Tokyo war crimes tribunal.

ISBN

• 003085329X (bound)
• 0030853281 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^76122254^//r90

OCLC

• 101913
• SCSB-10243079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library