| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth-Century Experience. By Howard Ball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. x, 288 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0977-6.)

War crimes and crimes against humanity have defaced the earth since the beginning of recorded history. How sad it is, then, that the list of genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansings, and other types of barbarism grew longer and more frightening in the century just past: Armenia, Auschwitz, the Gulag, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Kosovo come to mind. Hence, it was no accident that it was in the twentieth century, when war and mass murder were mechanized on a vast scale, that laws defining and condemning such outrages came into being. In Howard Ball's new book, which takes the story forward to 1999, we learn about those international efforts aimed at meting out justice to the guilty and preventing future atrocities. . . .

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