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100 1 $aBourke, Joanna.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93022189
245 13 $aAn intimate history of killing :$bface-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare /$cJoanna Bourke.
260 $a[New York, NY] :$bBasic Books,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axxiii, 509 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographic references (p. [365]-499) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Pleasures of War --$g2.$tThe Warrior Myth --$g3.$tTraining Men to Kill --$g4.$tAnatomy of a Hero --$g5.$tLove and Hate --$g6.$tWar Crimes --$g7.$tThe Burden of Guilt --$g8.$tMedics and the Military --$g9.$tPriests and Padres --$g10.$tWomen Go to War --$g11.$tReturn to Civilian Life.
520 1 $a"The characteristic act of men at war is killing, not dying, Joanna Bourke argues. For politicians, military strategists and many historians, war may be about the conquest of territory or the struggle to recover a sense of national honor, but for the man on active service warfare is a sanctioned bloodletting.".
520 8 $a"In An Intimate History of Killing Bourke presents us with a graphic, unromanticized and chilling look at men at war, and revises many long-held beliefs about the nature of violence and the behavior of soldiers in the three great wars of this century. The two world wars and the Vietnam War bloodied the hands and consciences of thousands of British, American and Australian men and women.
520 8 $aIn this book, the combatants - men and women, soldiers, nurses and priests - share their fantasies and experiences of "intimate" killing and, in the process, reveal themselves as individuals transformed by a range of conflicting emotions: fear and ecstasy, rage and exhilaration, hatred and empathy.".
520 8 $a"What kind of men make the best killers? How do soldiers cope with the horrors they witness and the atrocities they are ordered to commit? How do soldiers readjust to "normal" civilian life? These and many other disturbing questions are answered in a series of sharply drawn chapters."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPsychology, Military.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108477
650 0 $aCombat$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028793
650 0 $aHomicide$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061744
650 0 $aWar$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118194
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148236
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148273
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143277
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