The lessons of terror : a history of warfare against civilians : why it has always failed and why it will fail again / Caleb Carr.
Details how warfare has always targeted civilians, and argues that brutality never achieves its goals, but instead leads to resentment followed by even bloodier retaliation.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375508430
- ISBN: 9780375508431
- Physical Description: xiv, 272 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2002
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A catastrophe, not a cure -- Dulce bellum inexpertis -- Industry and cunning -- Covenants without the sword -- Honor has no effect on them -- To preach hatred -- Violence to its utmost bounds -- Fascinated by terror -- This fundamentally repugnant philosophy -- Shake hands with murder -- Profit or preservation?
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