Coup de grâce Coup de grâce A coup de grâce (; French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal. It may be a mercy killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the sufferer's consent. Examples of "coup de grâce" include shooting the heart or head (typically the back of the skull) of a wounded, but still living, person during an execution or by humanely killing a suffering, mortally wounded soldier, in war, for whom medical aid is not available. In pre-firearms eras the wounded were finished with
When the Enemy Is Tired When the Enemy Is Tired When the Enemy Is Tired is a 1968 novel by Russell Braddon. Colonel Anthony Russell, an officer in the Australian Army, is captured on a mission in China along with his squad of seven men. As the Chinese are excited by the possibilities of Russell defecting and broadcasting Communist propaganda, they assign Major Lim, a Chinese propaganda officer with a bitterness towards westerners – it is revealed later on that his parents were killed by a British soldier. Lim forces Russell to write his life story, in order to find out information that he will