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"This book shows us the true barbarism of warfare. It makes
brilliant but unsettling reading. Viewed together, the essays offer
as good a sustained critique of war as is available anywhere in
print, combined with a passion and engagement that is all too rare
in first rate scholarship. The book is to be greatly treasured as
an important contribution in a field of study that remains
depressingly relevant in the world today."
--C. A. Gearty, London School of Economics
aWarfare, [Kassimeris] reminds us, can foster the best of human
virtues. But it can also provide an arena in which a nationas true
character is demonstrated in the eyes of the world.a
--"Kansas City Star"
The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim
reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and
indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened
before: the World War II, and more recent wars and insurgencies in
Algeria, Congo, Angola, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and many
others, all bear witness to the ever-present human capacity to
commit barbaric acts if circumstances allow.
What drives people to mistreat, humiliate, and torment others?
In an age when real time war, violence, and torture are becoming
addictive forms of entertainment, it is now more critical than ever
to deepen our understanding of the extraordinary distortions of the
human psyche and spirit that occur in wartime. Eight distinguished
scholars explore, in this first collective effort, the effects of
the barbarization of warfare on our cultures and societies.
Contributors: Joanna Bourke, Niall Ferguson, Jay Winter, Richard
Overy, DavidAnderson, Hew Strachan, Paul Rogers, Kathleen Taylor,
Marilyn Young, Paul Rogers, Anthony Dworkin, Amir Weiner, Mary
Habeck, and David Simpson.
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