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May 17, 2022 · “War is hell,” wrote Tim O’Brien, “but that’s not the half of it, because war is mystery, and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
- Phil Klay
Many writers of war literature have discovered that the act of writing helps them deal with what we know call Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
I can explain why people might choose to write about war, exploring the viewpoints of different writers who have chosen to write about war themselves.
World War I produced an unprecedented number of war novels, by writers from countries on all sides of the conflict. One of the first and most influential of these was the 1916 novel Le Feu (or Under Fire ) by the French novelist and soldier Henri Barbusse .
Oct 5, 2014 · Our shared memory of the first world war has been significantly shaped by poets and novelists – so what role does literature play in the aftermath of this new kind of political conflict?
Mar 10, 2023 · Although P.H. Newby, the Prize’s inaugural winner in 1969, had served in France, the Middle East and Egypt during the Second World War, he chose not to make war the subject of Something to Answer For, but war and its effects are a key theme in a cluster of winning novels.
by their authors, have acted on the imagination of the young to shape a sense of national purpose and inspire a bellicose spirit. This function has been assumed all the more readily doubtless because the modern action novel, especially the war novel, is generically a descendant of the epic and
