BOURKE Joanna <br/><br/>
An intimate history of killing:  face-to-face killing in Twentieth-century warfare 

 - London:  Granta Books,  1999 
 - 564p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1862072140 (hbk.):  20.00 UK 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY<br/>MILITARY SOCIOLOGY<br/>MORALE<br/>MOTIVATION