Introduction xix Sometimes, the labels that fighting men apply to their enemies are racist terms. In other con- texts, these terms are offensive and unacceptable. However, recall that throughout recorded his- tory combat soldiers have used derogatory words to describe their enemies. Such denigration is often needed so that fighting men can steel themselves for the business of killing other humans. Moreover, combat soldiers live, and die, in an environment where a moment’s hesitation makes the difference between personal survival and death. Hatred of the enemy helps eliminate hesitation. Finally, some of these excerpts include profanity. This is the language of the combat soldier. These are their words. They have earned the right to describe events however they see them. NOTES 1. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953), 9. 2. J. Christopher Herold, ed., The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955), 220. 3. Michael Schoenfeld Interview, p. 36, Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1029472. 4. Napoleon related these views to Emmanuel Las Cases while in exile on November 20, 1816. An early English-language translation is in Emmanuel Las Cases, The Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon (London: Henry Colburn, 1835), 4: 251–252. A better English-language translation is provided in J. Christopher Herold, The Mind of Napoleon (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955), 50–51. 5. https://www.masshist.org/bh/essay.html. 6. Morgan Hall Interview, p. 31, Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1031137.
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