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War Dead - Western Societies and the Casualties of War (Paperback)
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War Dead - Western Societies and the Casualties of War (Paperback)
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Wars in the industrial age kill large numbers of people. What do
societies involved in these conflicts do with all the corpses? How
do they show them respect? How do they dispose of them? What is
their attitude to the bodies of the enemies? In the 19th century,
those who died on the battlefield were pushed into mass graves,
their identities unknown. Today, their remains are held in such
high esteem that they are tracked down in order that last respects
might be paid. As a historical account of the way in which war and
death intersect, this book describes the complex attitude societies
have towards death. Lured by the concept of eternal youth, tempted
to deny death as well as physical decay, faced with longer life
expectancy, we retain the hope of going off to war without loss of
life. But does not our own expectation of zero death" imply "more
deaths" for the other side?"
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