Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index.
Contents
Writing war in the twentieth century : an introduction -- The trace of the trenches : revisiting modernism and World War I -- The novel as war : lies and truth in Hemingway's A farewell to arms -- The novel of depopulation : Remarque's All quiet on the western front -- Unmaking and remaking a world : Thomas Keneally's book and Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's list -- Dividing the indivisible : the fissured story of the Manhattan Project -- Writing the apocalypse of Hiroshima -- Modernism and Vietnam : Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now -- Only the guns have eyes : military censorship and the body count in the Persian Gulf War.
