Translated by Bae Dong-keun | Arte | 704 pages | 45,000 Korean won In 1933, Nazi party members and students threw books into ...

IT would be a task worthy of a volume, and requiring that space in order to be creditably performed, to show how war affects literature, at what points they meet, where they are at variance, if any ...

WE LIVE in an age feverish in its demand for the new, for the unknown, and for the consequently interesting, with which to pamper the slightly weary civilization of the world. Each year, sensational ...

On Nov. 11, Canadians will mark Remembrance Day. CBC Books has curated this list of books giving insight into experiences of war, its impact on human life and its lasting reverberations.

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As the full-scale war enters into its fourth year, novelist and poet Myroslav Laiuk has found himself drawn to front-line ...

AMERICA FACES THE NEXT WAR— Frank H. Simonds—Harper ($1). When (there is no ”if” in Prophet Simonds’ vocabulary) the next great European war breaks out, what is the U. S. going to do about it? In this ...

The 1997 novel "Cold Mountain" is set during this war. Which war provides the setting for "All Quiet on the Western Front"? The poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounts an event in this war.

Only a couple of months ago, it looked as though Donald Miller had a publishing home run on his hands–a thoughtful, exhilarating, inclusive book about World War II scheduled to hit stores just as ...

PATHS OF GLORY—Humphrey Cobb—Viking ($2.50). War, which is sometimes spoken of as murder, is more often thought of as manslaughter in self-defense than as murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney provided opening remarks for his lecture on how Cold War politics shaped literature from ...

Chris Hedges’ basic message is simple: war is awful, and the ruling class cons the working class into fighting for them. “Any story of war,” he writes, “is a story of elites preying on the weak, the ...