| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library.
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| Summary |
Provides historical, cultural and social context of works that focus on armed conflict throughout the world and time. It highlights the realities of war, its impact on society, and how it affects our understanding of it. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Approaches. Theories -- The Art of War -- The Art of War -- "Civil Disobedience" -- Guerrilla Warfare -- On Guerrilla Warfare -- On War -- Strategy -- Histories -- An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies -- Backlands -- Bloods -- The Broken Spears -- The Civil War -- The Crusades through Arab Eyes -- Eighteen Fifty-Seven -- Facundo -- Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay -- The Gallic War -- Hiroshima -- The Histories -- Histories -- The History of the Peloponnesian War -- The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 -- The Last of the Mohicans -- Mao's Generals Remember Korea -- Royal Commentaries of the Inca and General History of Peru -- Three Kingdoms -- Eye-Witnessing -- The Araucanaid -- The Battle of Tomochic -- The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje -- Cartucho and My Mother's Hands -- Decent Interval -- Dispatches -- The Eagle and the Serpent -- Echoes of Violence -- The Face of War -- "Fireman Flower" -- Homage to Catalonia -- Man's Hope -- Memory for Forgetfulness -- Nella Last's War -- Requiem for Battleship Yamato -- A Rumor of War -- Russell's Despatches from the Crimea, 1854-1856 -- A Small Corner of Hell -- Tales of Soldiers and Civilians -- True History of the Conquest of New Spain. |
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families -- Zlata's Diary -- Propaganda -- The American Crisis -- "Astraea Victrix," "The Transvaal," and "A Word for the Navy" -- Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War -- "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- "Beyond Vietnam" -- "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and "Maud: A Monody" -- Eighteen Hundred and Eleven -- Henry V -- Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme -- "Paul Revere's Ride" -- The Silver Tassie -- The Song of Roland -- Sonnets I-V -- Sozaboy -- "Spain" -- Three Guineas -- Three Soldiers -- "Vitaï Lampada" and "Clifton Chapel" -- "We'll Meet Again" -- Satire -- Black Margins -- Catch-22 -- Death of a Hero -- The Good Soldier Švejk -- Madmen and Specialists -- M*A*S*H -- Oh What a Lovely War! -- Parentheses of Blood -- Scattered Crumbs -- Siege of Krishnapur -- Simplicius Simplicissimus -- Slaughterhouse-Five -- The Sword of Honour Trilogy -- World War I Poems -- Experiments -- L'allegria -- Antigone -- Aria da Capo -- Atonement -- Austerlitz -- La Casa Grande -- Gravity's Rainbow -- In Parenthesis -- The Kingdom of This World -- Leaves of Hypnos -- Little Mountain -- Marat/Sade -- Ten Days That Shook the World -- The Things They Carried -- Under Fire -- "The Walls Do Not Fall" -- War Music -- The War of the Worlds -- Zang Tumb Tuuum. |
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v. 2. Experiences. Combatants -- 1948 -- Aeneid -- "The Aisne" and "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" -- All Quiet on the Western Front -- Army Life in a Black Regiment -- "Break of Day in the Trenches," "Dead Man's Dump," "Returning, We Hear Larks" -- Bridges at Toko-Ri -- The Cavalry Maiden -- Commando -- Company K -- Fire from the Mountain -- Good-Bye to All That -- Harvest of Thorns -- The Iliad -- Jarhead -- The Last Enemy -- The Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk -- Matterhorn -- The Middle Parts of Fortune -- The Naked and the Dead -- The Red Badge of Courage -- Retrieving Bones -- Second World War Poetry -- Sorrow of War -- Storm of Steel -- War -- War and Peace -- What Price Glory? -- World War I Poems -- Zinky Boys -- Women at War -- And the Rain My Drink -- Destination Biafra -- Don't Mean Nothing -- The Forbidden Zone -- Hospital Sketches -- Iola Leroy -- Last Night I Dreamed of Peace -- Mary Chesnut's Civil War -- Mother Courage and Her Children -- Mothers of the Revolution -- Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral -- Sitt Marie-Rose -- Testament of Youth -- Under Two Flags -- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. |
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands -- Prisoners, Refugees, Exiles -- Auschwitz and After -- The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave -- The Complete Maus -- Days of Dust -- Diary of a Young Girl -- The Enormous Room -- Fatelessness -- First They Killed My Father -- The Great Escape -- If This Is a Man -- Journey into the Whirlwind -- Night -- No-No Boy -- Nowhere Man -- The Prison Poems -- Returning to Haifa -- Scatter the Ashes and Go -- Schindler's List -- The Sovereignty and Goodness of God -- Tamas -- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen; and Other Stories -- War Trash -- The Home Front -- All Our Yesterdays -- Barefoot Gen -- Comedy in a Minor Key -- The Girls of Slender Means -- The Linwoods -- "Meditations in Time of Civil War" -- A Night in May -- "The Rainy Spell" -- The Sea and Poison -- Change -- Blue Dragon, White Tiger -- The Campaign -- Co. Aytch -- Explosion in a Cathedral -- The Forever War -- The General in His Labyrinth -- Girls at War and Other Stories -- A Grain of Wheat -- Harry Gold -- The Insurrection -- The Killer Angels -- "Lessons of the War" -- The Long Song -- The March -- Persepolis -- The Quiet American -- The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River -- Tamburlaine the Great -- Under the Yoke -- The Underdogs -- Wolf Dreams. |
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v. 3. Impacts. The Body -- Black Rain -- Born on the Fourth of July -- Drum-Taps -- Johnny Got His Gun -- The Stone Virgins -- The Mind -- Afterwards -- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War -- Ceremony -- Dien Cai Dau -- Fires on the Plain -- Going after Cacciato -- Journey's End -- Machete Season -- The Madman of Freedom Square -- Novel without a Name -- Parade's End -- The Return of the Soldier -- Talking about O'Dwyer -- Gender and Gender Relations -- Bent -- Caught -- "England, My England" and "The Blind Man" -- Love in a Fallen City -- Lysistrata -- The Night Watch -- Regeneration Trilogy -- The Stone of Laughter -- Families, Communities, Countries -- All My Sons -- Black Watch -- The Caprices -- The Captain's Daughter -- Crossing Mandelbaum Gate -- Echoing Silences -- "Embarcation" and Other War Poems -- A Farewell to Arms -- The Field of Life and Death -- For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Gone with the Wind -- Half of a Yellow Sun -- The Heat of the Day -- I, Rigoberta Menchú -- In the Country of Men -- The Kite Runner -- Mayombe -- The Naked Tree -- No One Sleeps in Alexandria -- North -- The Painted Bird -- Red April -- The Red Lances. |
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The Selected Poems of Du Fu -- Tikhii Don -- Train to Pakistan -- Trojan Women -- The War of the End of the World -- The War Works Hard -- The Yankee Invasion -- Death -- Algerian White -- André -- The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna -- Bury the Dead -- "The Fly" -- The Freedom of the City -- "One Soldier" -- Values -- Between God and Man -- Blood in the Sun Trilogy -- Carcase for Hounds -- Chaka -- Dog Soldiers -- Eulogy on King Philip -- "The Gettysburg Address" -- The Gulf War Did Not Take Place -- Johnny Mad Dog -- Journey to the End of Night -- The Lay of Igor's Campaign -- Life and Fate -- The Long and the Short and the Tall -- The Looking Glass War -- "Negro Hero" -- The Poem of the Cid -- The Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- Suite Française -- The Tale of the Heike -- War in the Land of Egypt -- Aesthetics -- Doctor Zhivago -- Harp of Burma -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Operation Shylock -- Posterity -- Anil's Ghost -- Bangladesh Poems -- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Clive of India -- Epic of Sunjata -- Epitaphs of the War -- "For the Fallen" -- Granada -- Mahābhārata -- Malvinas Requiem -- "Monody on Major André" -- My Grandmother -- Son of Man -- Spain in Our Hearts -- "Today I Invoke Waris Shah." |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
War and literature.
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War in literature.
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War and literature. (OCoLC)fst01170442
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War in literature. (OCoLC)fst01170505
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Riggs, Thomas, 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Literature of war. Detroit : St. James Press, ©2012 9781558628427 (DLC) 2012012026 |
| ISBN |
9781558628458 |
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1558628452 |
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9781785398087 |
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1785398083 |
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9781558628427 |
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1558628428 |
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9781558628434 |
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1558628436 |
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9781558628441 |
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1558628444 |
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9781558628465 |
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1558628460 |
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