Description
Using letters, diaries, memoirs and reports of veterans from three conflicts, this book aims to establish a picture of the man-at-arms, concluding that war encourages pleasure in killing and turns ordinary people into enthusiastic killers without becoming 'brutalized'.
About the Author
Joanna Bourke is a Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London. Her books include Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War and Rape: Sex, Violence, History. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare was awarded the 1998 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Wolfson History Prize. She lives in London.
Awards
Short-listed for WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 and WH Smith Literary Prize 2000.
Book Information
ISBN 9781862073210
Author Joanna Bourke
Format Paperback
Page Count 576
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 33mm