War and genocide : organized killing in modern society /
Martin Shaw
- Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003
- xi, 257 p.
Examines the links between war and genocide showing that they are closely related, genocide being a form of war directed at civilians. As well as providing a reasoned argument about mass killings in modern war the book provides a guide to the intellectual resources, summarises the main instances of mass killing from the first world war trenches, to the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and offers a guide to further reading.