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

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Автор: Dave Grossman

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

Издательство: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company

Год: 1996

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 404

Язык: English

Размер: 60 MB

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.