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| Illustrations | |
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| Illustrations acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Wars and their Literatures | |
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| Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War | |
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| 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English Poetry of the Great War | |
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| Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction | |
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| One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel | |
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| The 'moaning of the world� 'and the 'words that bring me peace': Modernism and the First World War | |
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| The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory | |
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| Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916-39 | |
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| The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War | |
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| 'Lucid Song': The Poetry of the Second World War | |
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| American Poets of World War II | |
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| Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age-of the Trauma Trial | |
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| The Second World War in American Fiction | |
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| The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 | |
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| Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism | |
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| Holocaust Film | |
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| O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War | |
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| The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam | |
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| Cold War Films | |
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| Britain's Small Wars: Domesticating 'Emergency' | |
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| The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana | |
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| Vietnam Fictions | |
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| 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War | |
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| Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' | |
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| The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War | |
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| 'An Uneven Killing Field': British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia | |
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| Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 | |
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| Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures | |
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| Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures | |
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| War Memorials | |
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| Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground | |
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| War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State | |
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| American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War | |
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| Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors | |
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| The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore | |
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| 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': Race in War Literature | |
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| A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War | |
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| Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans | |
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| Technology | |
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| Introduction: Technology | |
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| Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare | |
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| Warplane | |
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| Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic | |
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| Submarine Novels 'After History' | |
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| 'An ecstasy of fumbling': Gas Warfare, 1914-18 and the Uses of Affect | |
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| Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception | |
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| Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the S�ance in World War I | |
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| Spaces | |
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| Introduction: Spaces | |
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| The Trenches | |
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| Literature of the Camps in the Second World War | |
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| 'That fighting was a long way off: Desert and Jungle War Poems | |
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| Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War | |
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| The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground | |
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| Genres | |
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| Introduction: Genres | |
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| Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill | |
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| Nuclear War in Science Fiction | |
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| The Children's War | |
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| The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process | |
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| Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War | |
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| Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction | |
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| 'Play Up and Play the Game!': The Narrative of War Games | |
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| War Correspondence | |
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| Thinking War | |
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Index | |