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"The characteristic act of men at war is killing, not dying, Joanna Bourke argues. For politicians, military strategists and many historians, war may be about the conquest of territory or the struggle to recover a sense of national honor, but for the man on active service warfare is a sanctioned bloodletting." "In An Intimate History of Killing Bourke presents us with a graphic, unromanticized and chilling look at men at war, and revises many long-held beliefs about the nature of violence and the behavior of soldiers in the three great wars of this century. The two world wars and the Vietnam War bloodied the hands and consciences of thousands of British, American and Australian men and women. In this book, the combatants - men and women, soldiers, nurses and priests - share their fantasies and experiences of "intimate" killing and, in the process, reveal themselves as individuals transformed by a range of conflicting emotions: fear and ecstasy, rage and exhilaration, hatred and empathy." "What kind of men make the best killers? How do soldiers cope with the horrors they witness and the atrocities they are ordered to commit? How do soldiers readjust to "normal" civilian life? These and many other disturbing questions are answered in a series of sharply drawn chapters."--Jacket

Polemology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Combat --- Homicide --- Military history --- Psychology, Military. --- Sociology, Military. --- War. --- Psychological aspects. --- Armed Conflicts --- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975. --- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918. --- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945. --- Guerre --- Oorlogvoering. --- Psychologie militaire. --- Vietnam Conflict. --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975. --- Violence --- War --- World War, 1914-1918. --- World War, 1939-1945. --- History. --- Histoire --- Psychology. --- History

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Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positi

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Men --- -Body, Human --- -Sociology of disability --- -World War, 1914-1918 --- -Masculinity --- -European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- Body, Human --- Human males --- Social aspects --- -Social aspects --- -Sociological aspects --- History, Modern --- Sex (Psychology) --- People with disabilities --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Human body --- Sociology of disability --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Corps humain --- Masculinité --- Hommes --- Handicap --- Première guerre mondiale --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Aspect sociologique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- -Masculinity (Psychology) --- European War, 1914-1918 --- -Human body --- -Men --- -Social aspects -

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World War II surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from home.; In this work, Joanna Bourke examines the events and outcomes in the vast number of places in which the War was fought: throughout Western and Central Europe, on the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union, in the Pacific, in Africa, in Asia. She shows where the strategic decisions came from and how they were implemented, but she also shows, through diary entries and recorded oral history, how ordinary people felt when they witnessed or heard of events, from the declaration of war on the radio to the mass murders carried out by Nazi soldiers in Russian villages.

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"In 2023, Birkbeck, University of London celebrates 200 years of educating working people in central London. It was founded in 1923 as the London Mechanics' Institution and, from its inception, was a pioneering and radical institution. This history is animated by the conviction that Birkbeck is its people. Their thoughts and ambitions, hopes and dreams, labour and laughter are what this book describes, celebrates, and occasionally laments. It explores the history of education as well as the history of place, politics, radicalism, class, race, gender, disciplinarity, theatre, food, leisure, war, and everyday encounters. Most of all, this book is about ideas. What does it mean to be educated? How have these meanings changed over time? What makes Birkbeck students unique? What does it mean to be fully human, exploiting our faculties in order to become better people?"--