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War -- Protection of civilians

Here are entered works on the rights, under international law, of civilians in the hands of belligerent powers, and on measures to protect such rights. Works on official or private assistance to civilians during war time are entered under War relief. Works on the protection of civilians from enemy attack are entered under Civil defense.

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• War -- Protection of civilians -- Africa
• War -- Protection of civilians -- Libya
• War -- Protection of civilians -- Palestine

• Protection of civilians

• "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda": The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2013), by Letta Tayler (PDF, illustrated HTML, and commentary at hrw.org)
• First Report of the War Victims' Relief Committee of The Society of Friends, September 1914 to February 1915 (London: Spottiswoode and Co., 1915), by Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) (PDF at archive.org)
• Fourth Report of the War Victims' Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, October, 1916 to September, 1917 (London: Headley Brothers, 1917), by Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) (page images here at Penn)
• Third Report of the War Victims' Relief Committee of The Society of Friends, October, 1915 to September, 1916 (London: Victorian Houser Printing Co., 1917), by Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) (page images here at Penn)
• Putting Noncombatants at Risk: Saddam's Use of "Human Shields" (January 2003), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War (1991), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Mass Atrocities in Africa (Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press, c2017), ed. by Dan Kuwali and Frans Viljoen (PDF in South Africa)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2023), by Timea Spitka (multiple formats with commentary at Springer Link)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Behavioral Origins of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scourge of War: New Extensions on an Old Problem (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), ed. by Paul F. Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• War in a Changing World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, c2001), ed. by Zeev Maoz and Azar Gat (page images at HathiTrust)
• War Stories (2001), by Bruce D. Larkin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Handbook of War Studies II (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Manus I. Midlarsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conflict, Culture, and History: Regional Dimensions (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1992), by Stephen Blank, Lawrence E. Grinter, K. P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, and Bynum E. Weathers (PDF at Air University Press)
• Primitive War: Its Practice and Concepts (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1949), by Harry Holbert Turney-High (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Guineas (1938), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• War Drums and Peace Plans (Headline Books #6; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1936), by Raymond Leslie Buell and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War is a Racket (New York: Round Table Press, 1935), by Smedley D. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The War Myth in United States History (third printing; New York: Vanguard Press; Association to Abolish War, 1934), by C. H. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex and War (Pedantic Pamphlet #2; New York: Birth Press, c1962), by Tuli Kupferberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• War; Patriotism; Peace (New York: Vanguard Press, 1927), by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Scott Nearing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Vernon Lee, illust. by Maxwell Armfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Biology of War (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by Georg Friedrich Nicolai, trans. by Constance A. Grande and Julian Grande
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Britain at Bay (1909), by Spenser Wilkinson (Gutenberg text)
• Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco Goya (PDF at gasl.org)
• Die Freiheitskriege Kleiner Völker Gegen Grosse Heere (in German; Bern : Haller'sche verlagsbuchhandlung, 1867), by Franz von Erlach
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and PDF in Germany
• The German War Book: Being "The Usages of War on Land" Issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Prussia Great General Staff, ed. by J. H. Morgan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (fourth revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage (third revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege (in German; Berlin: S. Mittler und Sohn, 1902), by Prussia Great General Staff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Letters on War (Maldon, Essex: Free Age Press, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (bound with other pamphlets: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Peace Theories and the Balkan War (1912), by Norman Angell (Gutenberg text)
• Some Neglected Aspects of War; Together With The Power That Makes for Peace, and The Capture of Private Property at Sea (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1907), by A. T. Mahan, contrib. by Henry S. Pritchett and Julian Stafford Corbett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Syllabus of Lectures on the War and Peace Problem for the Study of International Polity (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), by John Richard Mez (page images here at Penn)
• War is a Racket (based on the 1935 edition), by Smedley D. Butler (HTML, PDF, and text at ratical.org)
• The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations: Mr. Sumner's Address Before the American Peace Society (second edition; ca. 1849), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• War: What For? (third edition; West Lafayette, OH: The author, 1910), by George R. Kirkpatrick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004), ed. by George Melnyk (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Declaration Against War: Adopted by Socialist Youth League, Libertarian Socialist League, Young Peoples Socialist League (1950), by Socialist Youth League (U.S.), Libertarian Socialist League (U.S.), and Young People's Socialist League (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prescription for Permanent Peace (Chicago: Wilcox and Follet Co., 1944), by William S. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who Wants War? (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, National Office, ca. 1935), by A. A. Heller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• International Red Day (August 1, 1929): The Workers Fight Against Imperialist War (London: Modern Books, 1929) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Waffen Nieder! Eine Lebensgeschichte (2 volumes in 1, in German; Dresden and Leipzig: E. Pierson, 1892), by Bertha von Suttner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr. Norman Angell's Economic Doctrines (London: P. S. King and Son, 1915), by John Harry Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Free Man and the Soldier: Essays on the Reconciliation of Liberty and Discipline (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Ralph Barton Perry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• "Ground Arms!" "Die Waffen Nieder!" A Romance of European War (seventh edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1906), by Bertha von Suttner, trans. by Alice Asbury Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice in War-Time (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1916), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling (second edition; London and Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908), by Bertha von Suttner, trans. by T. Holmes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On War (1832 German version, and 1873 English translation), by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by J. J. Graham (HTML with commentary at clausewitzstudies.org)
• Tri Razgovora (in Russian; Munich: Izd-vo Milavida, ca. 1910), by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Way to Prevent War (Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, 1915), by Allan L. Benson
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Weltkrieg und Aberglaube: Erlebtes und Erlauschtes (in German; Leipzig: W. Heims, 1916), by Albert Hellwig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel (New York: The Century Co., 1917), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Iron, Blood and Profits: An Exposure of the World-Wide Munitions Racket (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1934), by George Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934), by H. C. Engelbrecht and Frank Cleary Hanighen (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• What is "National Honor"? The Challenge of the Reconstruction (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Leo Perla, contrib. by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Europe's Optical Illusion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1909), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fear God and Take Your Own Part (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1916), by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggle for Bread: A Reply to "The Great Illusion" and Enquiry Into Economic Tendencies (London and New York: John Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1913), by Victor Wallace Germains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (London: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (PDF and page images at CMU)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (second edition; London: Printed for R. Clavel, et al., 1695), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (third edition; London: Printed by T. W. for A. Churchill et al, 1720), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.