| Blair, one of American anti-aircraft gunners involved in this amicide, recounted the dreadful realization of having wantonly, though inadvertently, slaughtering their own gallant buddies. |
| The author agrees that the 30s is the decade where we all commit amicide, in a figurative sense, due to a feeling of not having as much in common with our friends anymore. |
| It is a well-researched, interesting, yet disturbing book about amicide, also known as "friendly fire" or "blue on blue" during warfare in the 20th-century. |
| Air support would have been largely non-existant as there was only very limited means to coordinate strikes which would have posed a real danger of amicide on their delivery. |
| The numbers show that 1,200 of the 5,307 paratroopers who flew into Sicily on July 11, 1943 died in acts of amicide. |
| The use of such guns was popular as there was little danger of the crews being mistaken for enemy and, hence, no real fear of amicide unlike the risks that other equipment posed. |
