PROSEPulitzer Prize Finalist Bancroft Prize Winner ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the Laws of war for US armies.
It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience..
Lincoln\'s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history.
Witt\'s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the Laws of war is a preHistory of our own era.
In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating History of the Laws of war and its eminent cast of characters--Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln--as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history.
By the twentieth century, Lincoln\'s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.
It announced standards of conduct in wartime--concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves--that shaped the course of the Civil War.
PROSEPulitzer Prize Finalist Bancroft Prize Winner ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the Laws of war for US armies
