W
Wagenbach, James W., 276
Wake Island battle, 147
Waldron, Adelbert F., 172-73, 336
war criminals, 105, 205
Waterloo, Battle of, 122
Watson, Peter, 25, 35, 49, 52, 149, 161,
306, 307
Wavell, Lord, 51
weather, effect of, 69, 72-73, 94
Weinberg, S. K., 335
Weinberger, Caspar, 292
Weinberger doctrine, 292
Weinstein, E. A., 335
Well of Fortitude, 83-86
Whitdesey, C. W„ 148
Willis, Captain, 118, 155
will to fight, 80
Wilson, James Q., 301
Wilson, Woodrow, 226
Wind of Hate, 65, 66, 76-82, 80, 95, 208
Wissembourg, Batde of, 12
women.
• killing of, 174-75, 266
• as scapegoats, 210-11
Wood, Evelyn, 31
World War I
• artillery bombardments, 80
• edged-weapons combat in, 122, 123-24, 125
• ending of, 273-74
• exhaustion in, 69, 86
• fraternization with enemy, 160
• gas used in, 95, 331
• hand grenades used in, 112-13
• ineffective firing in, 12
• Lost Battalion, 148
• machine guns in, 154
• nobility in, 195-96
• nonfirers in, 27-28, 34
• psychiatric casualties in, 44
• snipers, 108-09
• surrendering Germans killed in, 175-76
• treatment of surrendering soldiers in, 200
World War II.
• air combat in, 184
• atrocities in, 211, 215-16
• bayonets used in, 126
• bombings in, 55-57, 65, 80, 99-102, 104, 105
• bonding in, 269
• cooldown period, 272, 285-86
• cultural distance in, 161-62, 163
• exhaustion in, 69, 71-72, 85-86
• fear acceptable in, 53
• firing rates, 3-4, 15-16, 144, 153, 181, 333
• fraternization with enemy, 158-59
• killing rates, 30, 110, 161-62, 184-85
• knife killing in, 130
• leadership in, 147
• nonfirers in, 3-4, 15-16
• nonkillers in, 118
• pilots, killing by, 30, 110
• post-traumatic stress disorder after, 285-87
• prisoner treatment in, 204, 205
• psychiatric casualties in, 43-44, 269
• punishment justification in, 165
Y
Young, Peter, 174
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Grossman, Dave.
On killing : the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society / Dave Grossman. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-316-33000-0 (he) 0-316-33011-6 (pb)
1. Combat — Psychological aspects. 2. Psychology, Military.
3. Homicide — Psychological aspects. 4. Violence — Social aspects.
