Yamashita's ghost : war crimes, MacArthur's justice, and command accountability /
"Drawing directly from the tribunal's long-neglected transcripts, Ryan ... chronicles this tragic tale and its personalities. His ... analysis of the case's lingering question -- should a commander be held accountable for the crimes of his troops, even if he has no knowledge of them -...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©2012.
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Colección: | Modern war studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Law and war
- Tomoyuki Yamashita
- Malaya and Singapore
- Leyte
- Luzon
- Military commissions
- The charge : the accountability of command
- The prosecution : the hearsay problem
- The prosecution : the victims
- The prosecution : the defense scores
- The prosecution : the conclusion
- The defense : setting the stage
- The defense : Yamashita testifies
- The verdict
- The aftermath
- The Supreme Court
- The forties : Nuremberg and Tokyo
- The seventies : My Lai
- The twenty-first century : tribunals
- Today.