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Pros

A truly fascinating, and dare i say uncomfortable, look into almost all aspects of killing. Despite the pretty grim title, the book is really about living. It is ambitious in its design and generally succeeds in meeting the authors goals.

Lt col dave grossman, a former army ranger, delivers an incisive and spellbinding history of killing both during wartime and in society. I fear that the reason they have them read grossman's book is because he also explains the processes necessary to ... Read More

Cons

Most of it is pseudoscientific bunk. This garbage is opinion based on unverified sources. This is not my opinion, it is that of a majority of historians and anthropologist who study these things.

From this foundation of garbage, the author erects walls of paper. It's a real shame that so many in positions of responsibility have bought into this author's scam. And/or either it's to sell a book or to convince himself he didn't have a streak of c... Read More

He makes the logical jump from bogus research that man has some inherent quality that makes him reticent to kill other men. When he states outright that vietnam was a justified war, blathering on about containment, etc.

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Quality

I picked up as part of a very advanced history class on the vietnam war where i interacted with the work of people such as robe... Read More

Too bad i didn’t read it before my father a paratrooper with the 82nd airborne during wwii passed away

If he is on the frontlines and is eyeball to eyeball with the enemy often times soldiers will not pull the trigger

Price

The book was as described and well worth the price

As presented in this book the psychological cost is not the blood gore one might expect

Packaging/appearance

This book is a must read for your ccw now is the the book the marine corps required to read in basic training so your prepared ... Read More

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This product had a total of 3,348 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 18 2023.