An intimate history of killing: face-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare

Author: Bourke, Joanna

Title: An intimate history of killing: face-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare

Published: New York: Basic Books, 1999

Description: xxiii, 509 p., :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 365-499

Subject(s):

• Psychology, Military
• Combat -- Psychological aspects
• Homicide -- Psychological aspects
• War -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918
• World War, 1939-1945
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• Psychology, Military
• Violence -- psychology
• War -- history

Review(s):

• Reid, Brian Holden. "An Intimate History of Killing." History Today 49.6 (June 1999): 53
• Weldon Whalen, Robert. "An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare." American Historical Review 105.4 (Oct 2000): 1271

Read: August 2002