An Intimate History of Killing
Subtitle: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780465007387
First sentence: Stories of combat provide a way of coping with a fundamental tension of war: although the act of killing another person in battle may invoke a wave of nauseous distress, it may also incite intense feelings of pleasure.