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The Insanity of War
Grattan, C. Hartley | September 23, 1931 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Society at War," by Caroline E. Playne. It is written around the thesis that war is a form of social insanity, and its documentation is from the press, books, speeches, interviews and private diaries. The cumulative effect is very terrible, for it proves its thesis up to the hilt. "Society at War" is a brilliant piece of analysis looking in precisely the direction indicated. It takes a place in the front rank of revisionist works which are slowly extending backward into the historical and social genesis of the war and forward into its consequences. Playne thinks that everything pointed to the necessity for peace in 1916 and that many facts in the general situation favored it.

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SOCIETY at War (Book); BOOKS; WAR -- Psychological aspects; PEACE; INTERNATIONAL relations; VIOLENCE
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