Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia

摘要

Covering a span from the Asiatic Vespers in 88bce through 2012's Houla Massacre in Syria, editor Alexander Mikaberidze, the Hubert D. Humphreys Professor of History at Louisiana State University, brings together more than 200 contributing scholars in Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia to describe some of the most horrifying events in human history. Mikaberidze's Introduction is several pages in length, and gives an overview of the difficult events and subjects covered, as well as a hope that this work "will play some role in informing new generations of the pitfalls of the past so we can be more caring and appreciative of the fact that every person is a being of infinite worth".