Brains and Bullets

(Hardback, New ed.)

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Three stories run through this book. One story comes from a collection of eyewitness accounts of combat. Intense, personal and often laced with dark humour, this story ties readers to the experience of combat. The main body tells the second story. This describes the hard science of tactical psychology, from its basic components to its most compelling effects. The third story is woven through the scientific themes and tied to the eyewitness accounts. It tells how the author was sucked into a secretive world of fighters and thinkers.

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'As an introduction to recent developments in the field of tactical psychology, this book should be welcomed - Murray presents a thought-provoking argument for the importance of psychology on the battlefield in deciding the outcome of future conflicts.' Military History Monthly 'He makes an eloquent and well-argued case for the importance of battlefield psychology and the advantages that can come from a better understanding why people do and don't fight. It may be a controversial case, but it is also a well made [sic] one.' Mark Pack

Author Bio

Leo Murray is a military analyst and former soldier who has spent half his lifetime studying the psychology of armed combat. He has interviewed hundreds of war veterans, young and old, and worked with some shady collections of staff officers and war geeks. With a few exceptions, he has only ever been shot at by accident or under carefully-controlled laboratory conditions. Brains and Bullets is his first book.