New book explores why soldiers carry out brutal acts during conflicts, from bayoneting prisoners to death to raping women and murdering families
The atrocities of war: New book explores why soldiers carry out brutal acts during conflicts, from bayoneting prisoners to death to raping women and murdering families Shocking images capturing the atrocities of war have emerged in a book examining why soldiers carry out brutal acts during conflicts. The pictures include Chinese prisoners being bayoneted to death, families being rounded up and slaughtered in Vietnam and German victims of rape during the Second World War. Disturbing images also show Nazi executions in Poland and the Ukraine as well as torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The author of a new book outlines a number of factors that could explain why such atrocities took place - from the way in which soldiers are indoctrinated, to the living conditions they endure and the tactical and military situation on the ground. Shocking images capturing the atrocities of war have emerged in a book examining brutal acts carried out by soldiers. One shows Japanese soldier...