A World History of War Crimes

Author Michael Bryant Price £26.99 Publisher Bloomsbury

Mention the term ‘war crimes’ and the contemporary imagination conjures up an image of a roomful of grim-faced Nazis awaiting their death sentence in a Nuremberg court in 1946. Author Michael Bryant takes the story back more than 10,000 years to remind us that Stone Age societies were no strangers to indiscriminate violence. Bryant’s exhaustive research focuses on deep structures underlying atrocities in warfare.