Excerpt from The Laws of War on Land: Written and Unwritten The evolution of customary rules, designed to lessen the sufferings resulting from warfare, was the earliest achievement of the nascent science of International Law. It is, therefore, not surprising that, when, in quite recent times, efforts began to be made to formulate in writing the precepts of that science, by the quasi legislative action of the civilized Powers of the world in Conference assembled, the first topic so to be dealt with should be the conduct of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
