War machine : the rationalisation of slaughter in the modern age / Daniel Pick.

Author/creator Pick, Daniel
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1993.
Description292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Cobden's critique of war -- Clausewitz and friction -- Proudhon's War and peace -- Engels and the devouring war of the future -- De Quincey's m̀ost romantic of all romances' -- Ruskin and the degradation of true war -- The biology of war -- The wake of 1870 -- Tunnel visions -- 1914 : the d̀eep sources' -- The rationalisation of slaughter -- T̀he unnatural and terrible wall of the war' -- T̀he revolt of the machines' -- Ẁhy war?'
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.
LCCN 92044183
ISBN0300054173