VEALE, F.J.P. (a.k.a. 'A Jurist')

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This is the 1953 American edition. [Front Dustwrapper] 'This is the most important book in support of real peace since the days of Tolstoy. It ranks with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as one of the two most important books to come out of the second World War. Mr. Veale shows how the extension of military operations to civilian populations and property, and the increasingly destructive nature of total warfare, menace the very future of humanity and Western civilization. He makes it clear how the war-crimes trials, far from curbing the barbarism of present-day warfare, will make it absolutely certain that every known form of destructiveness and mass-murder, however fiendish and devastating, will surely be brought forth in the desperate effort to avoid a defeat which, in all future wars, will mean the summary liquidation of the political leaders and top military officers of the vanquished countries. This is a book of prime and immediate personal importance to every American, old and young alike. (From the item formerly at https://archive.org/details/AdvanceToBarabrism since deleted: and self-described as an extensive revision of the 1953 text and published by The Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1968: the 1953 American edition was translated into Spanish and published in Spain under the title “El Crimen de Nuremberg” in 1954, and later in the same year into German and published in Germany under the title “Der Barbarei entgegen”). Original English edition published 1948. Advance to Barbarism - Front Dustwrapper Front Flyleaf Binding Strip Front Board [photoplate] Liggi, Hanover [photoplate] Dresden after Allied Bombing, mid-February, 1945 Half-title Quotation from de Vattel [photoplate] Dresden after mass-bombing Title Page Dedication Foreword Preface CONTENTS Introduction 1. Primeval Simplicity 2. Organized Warfare 3. Europe’s Civil Wars 4. “Civilized Warfare” (The First Phase) 5. “Civilized Warfare” (The Second Phase) 6. The Splendid Decision 7. Downfall [photoplate] Chief Nazi Defendants in the Nürnberg Trials [photoplate] General W. Keitel rises to plead “Not Guilty” [photoplate] R.H. Jackson, Chief Allied Prosecutor at the Nürnberg Trials [photoplate] Hermann Göring ends his Testimony [photoplate] “Surrender of Breda” by Velasquez [photoplate] Artist's Conception of Execution Scene 8. Onward From Nürnberg 9. Reflections on the War-Trials in Historical Perspective 10. Orwellian Warfare 11. The Outlook Bibliography Index [photoplate] General View of Nürnberg Courtroom (left) [photoplate] General View of Nürnberg Courtroom (right) Rear Dustwrapper