BOOK REVIEW: 'Mercy: Humanity in War' WashTimesOpEd
Most Americans do not know the name Franz Stigler. In late 1943, in the air war over, Stigler climbed into the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf-109 to pursue a badly damaged B-17.
As to why some men choose mercy — why they withstand “the pressures to conform to expectations that for most soldiers simply overwhelm private conscience” — Mr. Nolan does not presume to have a definitive answer. In this concise volume about rare acts of restraint amid the pitiless landscape of industrialized warfare, Mr.
It will surprise no one to learn that mercy has been the exception to the rule of battlefield cruelty. If the objective is to destroy the enemy, mercy seems out of place, even counterproductive. “Crime and murder will be found on all sides in every war, although some armies surely behave more mercifully than others.”
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