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Authors: Chris Hedges
1
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
(New York: Henry Holt, 1998), p. 56.
2
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(Boston: The Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton Mifflin, 1974), Act IV, sc. i.
3
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Newsday
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1
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2
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3
.  Browning, Christopher,
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(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Ch. 18.
4
.  Ibid.
5
.  Ibid., p. 85.
6
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, (New York: Aventura/Vintage Books, 1984).
7
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8
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9
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Mirrors of Destruction
, p. 189.
10
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(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. 61â62.
14
.  KapuÅ¡ciÅski, 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
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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,
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(New York: Collier, 1961).
1
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2
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3
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4
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1
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Crowds and Power
(New York: Viking, 1962), p. 138.
2
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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
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
, discussed by Omer Bartov in his book,
Murder in Our Midst
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 72.
1
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2
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
(London: Doubleday, 1999), p. 136.
3
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), pp. 43â44.
4
.  Gray, J. Glenn,
The Warriors
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), p. 21.
5
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Ha'aretz
English Edition, May 4, 2001, p. B3.
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The New York Times Magazine
, April 29, 2001, p. 51.
11
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The Wall Street Journal
, April 25, 2001.
12
.  Manchester, William,
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
(London: Dell, 1980), pp. 17â18.
13
.  Gray,
The Warriors
, p. 207.
14
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15
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16
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Pro Archia
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The Oldest Dead White European Males
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