Psychology of Military Humour Book

This book is the most comprehensive work on the subject, and perhaps the only one that focuses on military humor. Everyone enjoys humor, and military humor has a particular appeal because it is created in an environment that offers the maximum opportunity for its exploitation. It will also make the general reader familiar with the military milieu and the working of the military mind. The student of psychology should find this book useful because it presents the difficult subject of humor in general, in a comprehensive and readable form. However, this book should prove most useful to the service officer, for whom the pleasure of the humor will be enhanced because familiarity with the military environment. It will also give a new dimension in the exercise of military command by the use of humor to mitigate the stresses and strains of peace and war.