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F. J. P. Veale:
Advance to Barbarism
The Development
of Total Warfare
from Sarajevo to Hiroshima
In this eloquent and provocative work, an English attorney with a profound understanding of military history traces the evolution of warfare from primitive savagery to the rise of a "civilized" code that was first threatened in our own Civil War, again in the First World War, and finally shattered during the Second World War - the most destructive conflict in history.
As the author compellingly argues, the ensuing "War Crimes Trials" at Nuremberg and Tokyo, and their more numerous and barbaric imitations in Communist-controlled eastern Europe, established the perilous principle that "the most serious war crime is to be on the losing side".
Out of print for many years, this classic work of revisionist history - a moving denunciation of hate-propaganda and barbarism - is once again available in a well-referenced new edition with a detailed index.
Contents:
Foreword by The Very Rev. William Ralph Inge / Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord
Hankey / Author's Introduction.
Primeval Simplicity / Organized Warfare /
Europe's Civil Wars / "Civilized
Warfare" (The First Phase) / "Civilized Warfare" (The Second Phase) / The
Splendid Decision / The Nuremberg Trials / The Last Phase / Postscript.
Bibliography / Index.
(363 pages, 13.5 x 21.5 cm, paperback, with references, bibliography, index.)
