Acts Of War: A Novel of Police Terror: The Behavior of Men in Battle - Softcover

Holmes, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0029148510 ISBN 13: 9780029148518

Publisher: Free Press, 1989

Synopsis

Uses interviews and historical accounts to analyze the combat experience, discusses the impact of fear, fatigue, and danger on soldiers, and examines our fascination with war

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Review:

... a powerful, thought-provoking picture of how the conditions of war affect a man. His sources are several centuries of warfare and the personal recollections of veterans of conflicts across the world. Holmes presents the results of his ambitious and exhaustive research in a very readable form, carefully balancing fact and emotion, detachment and compassion which adds considerable depth to the wisdom expressed. (ARMOUR (Nov/Dec '03))

Mr Holmes makes a convincing case that the human being remains the central weapon of military conflict, technology notwithstanding. What emerges is a compelling and very human portrait of war. (THE ECONOMIST (21/2/04))

Book Description:

The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0029148510
• ISBN 13: 9780029148518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464