A Darkling Plain: Stories of Conflict and Humanity During War

by Kristen Monroe and Kristen Renwick Monroe

Book Overview

How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because war is overwhelming. The generally accepted belief is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting one against another. "War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, and even "just" wars are massively destructive and inhumane. Since ethics is concerned with discovering what takes us to a morally superior...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110769017X
• ISBN13: 9781107690172
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"