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

New Haven, Conn : [Yale University Press], 1993.

292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copy 3 Supplier/Donor: Dillions 22500856017

Includes bibliographic references (p. [271]-286) and index

Cobden's critique of war -- Clausewitz and friction -- Proudhon's War and peace -- Engels and the devouring war of the future -- De Quincey's mòst romantic of all romances' -- Ruskin and the degradation of true war -- The biology of war -- The wake of 1870 -- Tunnel visions -- 1914 : the dèep sources' -- The rationalisation of slaughter -- T̀he unnatural and terrible wall of the war' -- T̀he revolt of the machines' -- Ẁhy war?'