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(0)Alex Vernon
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Description
"As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century's legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of...
2) War
Description
Provides both an introduction and a cross-section of the field, proposing why one should, and how one might, study the literature of war. Contributors offer samplings from the vast body of war-related literature and film, from the Iliad and Shakespeare to documentary films about the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan in the first decade of the 21st century. --From publisher description.