Target Switzerland; Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II
Rockville Centre, NY: Sarpedon, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, [2], 320, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink marks on flyleaf. Inscribed by author on title page to Irwin Hornstein (noted food and environmental scientist) and his wife Lydia. Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and an author and lawyer known for his litigation on behalf of the National Rifle Association. He has written extensively about the original meanings of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. He has argued and won three cases before the US Supreme Court: Printz v. United States, United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company, and Castillo v. United States. He has also written briefs in many other cases, including the Supreme Court cases Small v. United States (pertaining to the Gun Control Act of 1968) and McDonald v. Chicago. In District of Columbia v. Heller, he wrote a brief on behalf of the majority of both houses of Congress. More broadly, his decades of research on the Second Amendment contributed to the intellectual foundation of the Heller decision. He has written many books and articles on the topic of gun control, some of which have been cited in Supreme Court opinions. More