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WARFARE AND THE BODY OF THE SOLDIER COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS: RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF "NATIONS HAVE A RIGHT TO KILL" Dear Colleague, LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE has just published NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL. We believe that this book is a work of stunning originality and fundamental significance on the nature of warfare and meaning of the nation-state. We wish to assure that it receives the widest possible circulation. Therefore we are offering a FREE COPY OF THIS TITLE to instructors when they request that their library order a copy. To RECEIVE YOUR FREE COPY SIMPLY SEND AN EMAIL to [log in to unmask] indicating that you are planning to ask your library to order a copy--and provide the shipping address at which you would like to receive your own copy. We will ship your personal copy out right away. With best regards, Orion Anderson P. S. Details on this exciting, groundbreaking publication appear below. Orion Anderson, Editor-in-Chief Library of Social Science 9230 56th Ave., Suite 3E Elmhurst, NY 11373 Tel: (718) 393-1104 Just Published/New NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL: Hitler, the Holocaust and War By Richard A. Koenigsberg http://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/images/nations-frontcover.jpg Product Details Title: Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War Author: Richard A. Koenigsberg Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Library of Social Science 92-30 56th Ave., Suite 3E Elmhurst, NY 11373 Language: English ISBN: 978-0915042234 Price: $39.99 Praise for Nations Have the Right to Kill: "Richard Koenigsberg is an intrepid generator and disseminator of novel ideas regarding human violence and destructiveness, ideas that are startling all the more for being self-evident once they have been absorbed. The identification of the individual with the nation and, reciprocally, the equation of the nation with oneself, can create a horrific psychic situation whereby redemptive actions are invoked that can be suffused with bloody violence and destruction. Koenigsberg's ideas cut trenchantly through conventional, rationalized notions about culture and war, enabling us to understand human institutions in utterly new ways." -Ruth Stein, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, New York University, author of For the Love of the Father "In this illuminating study of warfare, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg discusses how collective acts of violence safeguard the idea and practice of the nation. War, Koenigsberg argues, is a form of sacrificial violence: a ritual process through which a nation becomes alive. Individuals must sacrifice themselves in order for the nation to survive. He induces this persuasive argument from an array of historical examples across centuries, with special focus on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. With great precision, he shows how in the Second World War Hitler encouraged the death (murder) of thousands of his obedient soldiers as a way for the German nation to attain vitality and permanence. Accordingly, Hitler engaged in acts of genocide because he believed the slaughter of Jews would balance out the loss of his heroic soldiers. Based on the ideology of sacrifice, Hitler justified the murder of millions of Jews, people whom-he believed-refused to give up their lives for the nation-and therefore had to be terminated for the sake of the nation. A fresh and passionate mode of theorizing war, Nations Have the Right to Kill provides a tantalizing look at how nations are constructed through sacrifice of self and other." -Professor Babak Rahimi, Program for the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego "Nations Have the Right to Kill reminds us in clear and incisive prose that sacrifice and total war were inextricably linked. Drawing on a broad range of knowledge spanning the social sciences, Richard Koenigsberg asks us to conceive of the Holocaust as the product of an ideology that demanded the sacrifice of both Germany's male population and European Jewry. His thesis resonates well into our own century by forcing us to confront the reasons why nations demand and expect human sacrifice." -Brian E. Crim, Professor of History, Lynchburg College, author of "Terror from the Right: Revolutionary Terrorism and the Failure of the Weimar Republic" "Despite the vast body of research devoted to the Holocaust, Nations Have the Right to Kill marks a seminal contribution to our understanding of this act of genocide. Challenging our belief that Hitler was a uniquely inhuman monster, Koenigsberg places him squarely within the narrative of a much more widely held ideology claiming that dying for one's country represents the apogee of love and devotion. Given that both war and genocide remain pervasive in today's world, Nations Have the Right to Kill forces us to reexamine, and reflect on, the true causes of these phenomena." -Brian A. Victoria, Professor of Japanese Studies, Antioch University, author of Zen at War "Using Hitler as a focal point, Dr. Koenigsberg offers a riveting examination of the ideology of political violence. Nations Have the Right to Kill contains a message that anyone with an interest in changing the course of human history should internalize and reflect upon. Its striking lucidity will be a catalyst for our collective evolution." -Lee Hall, JD, author of Capers in the Churchyard