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War crimes and realpolitik: international justice from World War I to the 21st century (PDF). Boulder, Colo.: Rienner. ISBN 978-1-58826-252-3. Schabas, William A. (3 January 2018). "International Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Perpetrated during the First World War". Justice Without Borders. Brill Nijhoff. pp. 395– 410.
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
The overall population loss from 1912 to 1920, based on the pre-war level was 1,236,000 persons (including 750,000 in World War I; 150,000 killed in the Balkan Wars and a decline in the number of births of 336,000), in addition there were 47,000 war related deaths during 1914–1920, that are included with deaths by natural causes.
da. ^ World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946, there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that a total of 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during World War II. [78] [79] He estimates that there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of the war.
Trask, David F ed. World War I at home; readings on American life, 1914-1920 (1969) primary sources online; Tucker, Spencer C., and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2005). worldwide coverage; Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide (2014) excerpt
The pacification resulted in mass deaths of the indigenous people in Cyrenaica—one quarter of Cyrenaica's entire population of 225,000 people died during the conflict. [ 180 ] [ 185 ] Italy committed major war crimes during the conflict; including the use of chemical weapons , the refusal to take prisoners of war and the execution rather than ...