Hilary Gaskin is the author of Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg, which will be reviewed here by Basil Davidson.
The notion that war can be carried on without crime is as novel, I suppose, as the companion notion that the crime should afterwards be punished by legal process: the first idea has encouraged...
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