An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke

An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare

Joanna Bourke

544 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defense of national honor, but for men in active service, warfare means being - or becoming - effic...

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