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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Grossman, Dave

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringCriminologyGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 0316040932
ISBN13: 9780316040938
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat.

An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed. --Washington Post

The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman--drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam--is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles.

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