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friendship in, 115–116
as god, 10–11
killing and, 8–9, 21, 84–88, 173–177
love and, 100, 158–185
meaning and, 158–159
media and, 20, 142–144
memory recovery and, 122–41
modern, 8, 28, 106
myth of, 3, 11, 17, 19–42, 83–86, 134, 143, 173
nationalism and, 43–61
as necrophilia, 165–166
patriotism and, 10, 14–15, 176
recovery from, 12, 129–130, 133–134, 162
sex and, 99–106, 163, 168
suicide and, 177–80
on terrorism, 4–5, 8–9
warlords
in Bosnia, 30, 163
displacement and, 111–112
in Somali, 13
The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (Ignatieff), 71
The Warriors (Gray), 101
Waterloo, 31
Weil, Simone, 21, 30
West, 20, 27
West Bank, 2, 4
West Point, 11
Wheeler, John, 11
Widener Library, 183
Widows (Dorfman), 133
Witness for Peace, 36
Wolves, 113
World War I, 31, 48, 85
World War II, 87, 89, 131, 133, 150
Yale Law School, 11
Yeats, William Butler, 90
Yekhi, Mohammed Masha, 179
Yemen, 2
Yorkshire, 31
Yugoslavia, 15
breakup of, 98–99
Communist Partisans in, 131–132
myth of war and, 20, 27, 33
nationalism and, 46
partisan war in, 167
Tito and, 151
Zagreb, 33, 34
Zagreb University, 70
Zaire, 25
Zenica, 104
Zivotić, Miladin, 57–58
Zohrab Center, 125
Zukić, Dzemo, 113
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1: The Myth of War
2: The Plague of Nationalism
3: The Destruction of Culture
4: The Seduction of Battle and the Perversion of War
5: The Hijacking and Recovery of Memory
6: The Cause
7: Eros and Thanatos
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER