Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Illustrations acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century 1
6. Part I: Wars and their Literatures
7. 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War 11
8. 2. ‘The essentially modern attitude toward war’: English Poetry of the Great War 20
9. 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction 31
10. 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel 40
11. 5. The ‘moaning of the world’ and the ‘words that bring me peace’: Modernism and the First World War 47
12. 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory 58
13. 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916–39 64
14. 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War 75
15. 9. ‘Lucid Song’: The Poetry of the Second World War 85
16. 10. American Poets of World War II 94
17. 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial 101
18. 12. The Second World War in American Fiction 110
19. 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 118
20. 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism 126
21. 15. Holocaust Film 134
22. 16. O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War 151
23. 17. The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam 160
24. 18. Cold War Films 172
25. 19. Britain’s Small Wars: Domesticating ‘Emergency’ 181
26. 20. The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana 190
27. 21. Vietnam Fictions 205
28. 22. ‘Will there be peace again?’: American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War 214
29. 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ 222
30. 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War 231
31. 25. ‘An Uneven Killing Field’: British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia 241
32. 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 251
33. Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures
34. Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures 265
35. 27. War Memorials 269
36. 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground 277
37. 29. War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State 285
38. 30. American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War 294
39. 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors 304
40. 32. The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore 317
41. 33. ‘These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld’: Race in War Literature 326
42. 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War 334
43. 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans 341
44. Part III: Technology
45. Introduction: Technology 351
46. 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare 356
47. 37. Warplane 366
48. 38. Monsarrat’s Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic 380
49. 39. Submarine Novels ‘After History’ 388
50. 40. ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’: Gas Warfare, 1914–18 and the Uses of Affect 396
51. 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception 406
52. 42. Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I 413
53. Part IV: Spaces
54. Introduction: Spaces 427
55. 43. The Trenches 431
56. 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War 439
57. 45. ‘That fi ghting was a long way off ’: Desert and Jungle War Poems 448
58. 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War 456
59. 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground 465
60. Part V: Genres
61. Introduction: Genres 475
62. 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill 479
63. 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction 490
64. 50. The Children’s War 498
65. 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process 508
66. 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War 516
67. 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century 524
68. 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction 536
69. 55. ‘Play Up and Play the Game!’: The Narrative of War Games 544
70. 56. War Correspondence 553
71. 57. Thinking War 562
72. Notes on contributors 570
73. Index 577