TY - BOOK AU - BOURKE Joanna TI - An intimate history of killing: face-to-face killing in Twentieth-century warfare SN - 1862072140 (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Granta Books KW - MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY KW - MILITARY SOCIOLOGY KW - MORALE KW - MOTIVATION N2 - 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 ER -