Matthew Lloyd Davies
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Language
English
Description
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to "be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
We accept this contemporary reality-at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head...