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An intimate history of killing : face-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare

Author: Joanna Bourke
Publisher: [New York, NY] : Basic Books, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Bourke, Joanna.
Intimate history of killing.
[New York, NY] : Basic Books, c1999
(OCoLC)607389384
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joanna Bourke
ISBN: 0465007376 9780465007370 0465007384 9780465007387
OCLC Number: 42403253
Description: xxiii, 509 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The pleasures of war --
The warrior myth --
Training men to kill --
Anatomy of a hero --
Love and hate --
War crimes --
The burden of guilt --
Medics and the military --
Priests and padres --
Women go to war --
Return to civilian life.
Responsibility: Joanna Bourke.

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