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Acknowledgements p. v The Contributors The Barbarisation of Warfare: a User's Manual p. 1 Barbarisation vs. Civilisation in Time of War p. 19 The Second World War: a Barbarous Conflict? p. 39 Time, Space and Barbarisation: the German Army and the Eastern Front in Two World Wars p. 58 The Modern and the Primitive: Barbarity and Warfare on the Eastern Front p. 83 Something to Die For, a Lot to Kill For: the Soviet System and the Barbarisation of Warfare, 1939-1945 p. 101 Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing: the Dynamics of Defeat, Surrender and Barbarity in the Age of Total War p. 126 Surrogates of the State: Collaboration and Atrocity in Kenya's Mau Mau War p. 159 The American Empire at War p. 175 The Global War on Terror and its Impact on the Conduct of War p. 186 The Texts of Torture p. 207 The Laws of War in the Age of Asymmetric Conflict p. 220 On Brainwashing p. 238 Epilogue: Reflections on War and Barbarism p. 254 Notes p. 267 Index p. 317 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.