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100 1 _aBOURKE Joanna
245 0 _aAn intimate history of killing:
_bface-to-face killing in Twentieth-century warfare
260 _aLondon:
_bGranta Books,
_c1999
300 _a564p.
520 3 _aThe 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.
650 _aMILITARY PSYCHOLOGY
650 _aMILITARY SOCIOLOGY
650 _aMORALE
650 _aMOTIVATION
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