Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J.
Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been
drafted on the same day he was informed of his doctorate in
philosophy from Columbia University. He was discharged as a second
lieutenant in October 1945, having been awarded a battlefield
commission during fighting in France. Gray saw service in North
Africa, Italy, France, and Germany in a counter-espionage unit.
Fourteen years after his discharge, Gray began to reread his war
journals and letters in an attempt to find some meaning in his
wartime experiences. The result is The Warriors, a philosophical
meditation on what warfare does to us and an examination of the
reasons soldiers act as they do. Gray explains the attractions of
battle—the adrenaline rush, the esprit de corps—and analyzes
the many rationalizations made by combat troops to justify their
actions. In the end, Gray notes, “War reveals dimensions of human
nature both above and below the acceptable standards for
humanity.”
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