Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know is a 1999 reference book edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff.

[2] Contributors include Sydney Schanberg, William Shawcross, Christiane Amanpour, and Justice Richard Goldstone, the UN Tribunal's first prosecutor, who provides a foreword.

The book is part of a comprehensive project started by Gutman, photojournalist Gilles Peress, and UN Messenger for Peace Anna Cataldi which includes educational initiatives and additional articles.

It has been published in 11 languages, including Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian and Chinese.

A revised edition (2.0) with updated articles was published in October 2007 by W.W. Norton.