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RR 2012/110 Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide (revised edition) Leslie Alan Horvitz and Christopher Catherwood Facts on File New York, NY 2011 2 vols ISBN 978 0 8160 8083 0 £140/$150
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Keywords Crimes, Genocide, War
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211211235
I must confess to an initial distaste to reviewing this work: war crimes and genocide are hardly fun subjects. Indeed, are there any more depressing? Terrorism? That is in here as well! Even the compilers, freelance writer Leslie Horvitz and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Christopher Catherwood, are a touch apologetic: "It would be gratifying if this encyclopedia were mostly historical in nature [. . .] [but] since the original edition of this book was published in 2006, the human rights situation has continued to deteriorate in such countries as Afghanistan, China, Iran, and Russia [. . .]". This edition was published before the "Arab Spring" of 2011, the death of Osama Bin Laden and...