num_pages: 366
description: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman draws unsettling, even sinister parallels between the psychological conditioning required to make soldiers kill in war and the similar effect that videos, films, games and movies have in civilian society.
language: English
title: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
titlecomplete: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
genres: War, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Military History, Military Fiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 10493
publisher: Back Bay Books