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CHAPTER
3
THE DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE

1
.  Ignatieff, Michael,
The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
(New York: Henry Holt, 1998), p. 56.

2
.  Shakespeare, William,
Othello
(Boston: The Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton Mifflin, 1974), Act IV, sc. i.

3
.  Sachs, Susan,
Newsday
, October 22, 1995, p. A04.

CHAPTER
4
THE SEDUCTION OF BATTLE AND THE PERVERSION OF WAR

1
.  Bartov, Omer,
Mirrors of Destruction
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 45.

2
.  Remarque, Erich Maria,
All Quiet on the Western Front
(New York: Fawcett Crest, 1975), p. 114.

3
.  Browning, Christopher,
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Ch. 18.

4
.  Ibid.

5
.  Ibid., p. 85.

6
.  Morante, Elsa,
History: A Novel (La Storia)
, (New York: Aventura/Vintage Books, 1984).

7
.  Auden, W. H.,
Selected Poems
(London: Faber & Faber, 1981), p. 80.

8
.  Proust, Marcel, quoted in Alain De Botton,
How Proust Can Change Your Life
(London: Picador,1997), p. 197.

9
.  Bartov,
Mirrors of Destruction
, p. 189.

10
.  Ka'Tzetnik 135633,
House of Dolls
(London: Muller, Blond & White, 1986).

11
.  Bartov,
Mirrors of Destruction
, p. 193.

12
.  Ibid.

13
.  Gray, J. Glenn,
The Warriors
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), pp. 61–62.

14
.  Kapušciński, Ryszard,
Another Day of Life
(London: Picador, 1988), p. 56.

15
.  Ibid.

16
.  Ibid., p. 57.

17
.  Arendt, Hannah,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979), Ch. 9.

18
.  Canetti, Elias,
Crowds and Power (New
York: Viking Press, 1962), p. 187.

19
.  Andric, Ivo,
The Bridge on the Drina
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 15.

20
.  Gray,
The Warriors
, p. 90.

21
.  Ibid.

22
.  Levi, Primo,
Survival in Auschwitz (Se questo è un uomo)
(New York: Collier, 1961).

CHAPTER
5
THE HIJACKING AND RECOVERY OF MEMORY

1
.  Kundera, Milan,
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1996), p. 4.

2
.  Dorfman, Ariel,
Widows
(New York: Aventura, 1983).

3
.  Feitlowitz, Marguerite,
The Lexicon of Terror
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

4
.  Grossman, Vasily,
Life and Fate
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 82.

CHAPTER
6
THE CAUSE

1
.  Canetti, Elias,
Crowds and Power
(New York: Viking, 1962), p. 138.

2
.  Herr, Michael,
Dispatches
(New York: Vintage International, 1991), p. 215.

3
.  For an expansive portrait of Morel and the Congo, see Adam Hochschild,
King Leopold's Ghost
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).

4
.  Arendt, Hannah,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
, discussed by Omer Bartov in his book,
Murder in Our Midst
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 72.

CHAPTER
7
EROS AND THANATOS

1
.  Freud, Sigmund,
Civilization and Its Discontents
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 82.

2
.  Loyd, Anthony,
My War Gone By, I Miss It So
(London: Doubleday, 1999), p. 136.

3
.  Grossman, Dave,
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), pp. 43–44.

4
.  Gray, J. Glenn,
The Warriors
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), p. 21.

5
.  
Ha'aretz
English Edition, May 4, 2001, p. B3.

6
.  Sudetic, Chuck,
Blood and Vengeance
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. xxxii–xxxiii.

7
.  Djilas, Milovan,
Wartime
(New York: Harvest Books, 1977), p. 280.

8
.  Fitzgerald, Robert,
In the Rose of Time: Poems 1931–1956
(New York: New Directions Books, 1956), p. 148.

9
.  Frankl, Viktor,
Man's Search for Meaning
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), p. 48.

10
.  Vistica, Gregory L., “What happened in Thanh Phong,”
The New York Times Magazine
, April 29, 2001, p. 51.

11
.  Farney, Dennis,
The Wall Street Journal
, April 25, 2001.

12
.  Manchester, William,
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
(London: Dell, 1980), pp. 17–18.

13
.  Gray,
The Warriors
, p. 207.

14
.  Pyle, Ernie,
Ernies' War–the Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), p. 419.

15
.  Shakespeare, William,
Macbeth
(Boston: Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton Mifflin, 1974), Act IV, sc. ii.

16
.  Cicero,
Pro Archia
, 2.3. 14–16, quoted in Bernard Knox,
The Oldest Dead White European Males
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), p. 83.

17
.  Goold, George,
Catullus
(London: Duckworth, 1983).

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