Men at War : What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22.

Cover -- Contents -- 1. AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH -- 2. WARRIORS -- Achilles-The Iliad, Homer -- Aeneas-The Aeneid, Virgil -- Hadji Murat-Hadji Murat, Leo Tolstoy -- Lucky Jack' Aubrey-Aubrey-Maturin Series, Patrick O'Brian -- Vollmer-Human Moments in World War III, Don DeLillo -- 3. HEROES -- Henry Fleming-The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane -- Brigadier Gerard-The Complete Brigadier Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle -- Bourne-Her Privates We, Frederic Manning -- Robert Jordan-For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway -- Malaparte-Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte -- 4. VILLAINS -- Colonel Feraud-The Duel, Joseph Conrad -- Colonel Moredock-The Con.dence Man, Herman Melville -- General Cummings-The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer -- Dr Strangelove-Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick -- Judge Holden-Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy -- 5. SURVIVORS -- Falstaff-Henry IV, Parts I and II, William Shakespeare -- Švejk-The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek -- Yossarian-Catch-22, Joseph Heller -- Kien-The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh -- Flashman-'The Flashman Papers', George McDonald Fraser -- 6. VICTIMS -- Philoctetes-Philoctetes, Sophocles -- Colonel Chabert-Colonel Chabert, Honoré de Balzac -- Paul Baumer-All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque -- Guy Crouchback-Sword of Honour, Evelyn Waugh -- Billy Pilgrim-Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut -- 7. WAR IS KIND: A FINAL SUMMING UP -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This is the story of the fictional warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims whose exploits thrill and appal us, capturing the existential appeal to men of war.

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