An Intimate History Of Killing: Face-To-Face Killing In
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Using letters, diaries, memoirs and testimony from soldiers in the First and Second World Wars and Vietnam, Joanna Bourke suggests that the structure of war encourages pleasure in killing, and that ordinary human beings can become enthusiastic killers without becoming 'brutalized'.
'The implications of Bourke's book are profound.' Scotland on Sunday
'This is an important but deeply disturbing book.' Mail on Sunday
'Compulsively readable.' Guardian
'An extraordinary tour de force.' TES
Author: Joanna Bourke
Format: Paperback, 576 pages, 128mm x 198mm, 400 g
Published: 2000, Granta Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Military History
Description
Using letters, diaries, memoirs and testimony from soldiers in the First and Second World Wars and Vietnam, Joanna Bourke suggests that the structure of war encourages pleasure in killing, and that ordinary human beings can become enthusiastic killers without becoming 'brutalized'.
'The implications of Bourke's book are profound.' Scotland on Sunday
'This is an important but deeply disturbing book.' Mail on Sunday
'Compulsively readable.' Guardian
'An extraordinary tour de force.' TES
An Intimate History Of Killing: Face-To-Face Killing In