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

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BOURKE Joanna

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Granta Books, 1999Description: 564pISBN:

1862072140 (hbk.):

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Summary: The author uses the letters, diaries, memoirs and reports of veterans from the First and Second World wars and the Vietnam war to demonstrate a revision of the conventional view of men-at-arms. Examines the way men experience killing and investigates the ways in which killing is embedded within the human imagination and culture in the twentieth century.

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The author uses the letters, diaries, memoirs and reports of veterans from the First and Second World wars and the Vietnam war to demonstrate a revision of the conventional view of men-at-arms. Examines the way men experience killing and investigates the ways in which killing is embedded within the human imagination and culture in the twentieth century.

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