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1	The Great War and Modern Memory more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Paul Fussell's great book explores World War I as a cultural phenomenon--a cataclysmic force that wrought indelible changes in patterns of thought, habits of trust, and the literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.92! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth more books like this by John Garth add to wishlist This biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of "The Lord of the Rings". The period of Tolkien's life in which he fought in the Great War has remained largely unexplored and unresearched by his many and various biographers - this volume concentrates specifically on this period and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	A Companion to the Iliad more books like this by Malcolm M Willcock add to wishlist Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist It has been suggested that Hemingway's art has both the virtues and limitations of lyricism - including maximum intensity. This collection of essays examines "A Farewell to Arms". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tell Then We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust more books like this by Susan D Bachrach, Susan D Backrach add to wishlist A photo-history of the Holocaust. Sidebars throughout the text focus on the experiences of 20 individuals who, as children, were victims of the Nazis. Illustrated with b&w and color images from the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. see all copies from $2.89! new only from $6.85! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Path to the Nest of Spiders more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist This autobiographical, essay-like coming-of-age novel was Calvino's debut, written when he was 23. Set in the 1940s during the war, it tells the tale of a young cobbler's apprentice, his sister (a prostitute), and the band of partisans with whom he becomes involved. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $88.84! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Red Badge of Courage more books like this by Patrick Salerno add to wishlist Crane wrote the first draft of this book in only ten days. As the story of a young boy's first battle, not only in war but with his own fear, pride, and cowardice, it still remains as one of the best fictions about the American Civil War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	New Essays on the Last of the Mohicans more books like this by H Daniel Peck (Editor) add to wishlist The Last of the Mohicans is the most widely read and internationally acclaimed of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, and has traditionally been regarded as an exciting and well-made adventure story. In recent years, however, critics have found in this classic tale of colonial warfare deeper levels of meaning. In the introduction to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.41! \| first editions
9	Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949 more books like this by Margaret Mitchell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Homer's Iliad more books like this by Bob Linn, Robert Linn add to wishlist The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Homer's classic Greek epic, The Iliad, plunges you into the midst of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
11	Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory more books like this by Neil Longley York add to wishlist In 1863 Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson led a cavalry expedition the General Grant hoped would distract Confederate forces while the Union Army made its way toward Vicksburg. This is a thorough examination of this expedition. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Third Reich more books like this by David Williamson add to wishlist This series discusses some of the major historical topics through a mixture of narrative and analysis of the key issues involved. Each book is designed to introduce the reader to a wide range of contemporary sources and aims to encourage readers in the handling and assessment of original historical material. This particular book traces the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.90! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Farewell to Arms more books like this by H R Berridge, Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist A guide to reading "A Farewell to Arms" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.21! \| first editions
14 view cover	The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War more books like this by Caroline Alexander add to wishlist From the author of the bestselling work "The Bounty" comes a groundbreaking reading of "The Iliad" that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war. see all copies from $9.94! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the World of Patrick O'Brian more books like this by Brian Lavery, Peter Weir (Foreword by) add to wishlist Respected naval historian Brian Lavery explores the historical frame-work of the Patrick O'Brian novels by examining the facts behind the narrative and putting the key episodes in context while detailing naval life in the era of Nelson and Napoleon. see all copies from $12.99! new only from $30.00!
16	Disaster and Fiction: Modern Greek Fiction and the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922 more books like this by Thomas Doulis add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! new only from $43.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Wilfred Owen: A New Biography more books like this by Dominic Hibberd add to wishlist England's most celebrated war poet, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), is the subject of this biography, which takes him through his rather ordinary and very religious childhood through his war experiences, his breakdown after being shelled in a French forest, and his subsequent recovery (at the famous Craiglockhart, where he became friendly with Siegfried ... see all copies from $18.63! new only from $18.63! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film more books like this by Mark Taylor add to wishlist Mark Taylor offers an interdisciplinary approach to the Vietnam War -- a popular but complex subject that has been variously discussed by historians, filmmakers, and novelists. After outlining the chronology of events during the Vietnam War, Taylor examines five crucial events--including the My Lai Massacre, the siege at Khe Sanh, and the ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $14.98! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Sky: A True Story of Resistance During World War II: Illustrated with Photographs, Documents, and Letters from the Author's Collection more books like this by Hanneke Ippisch add to wishlist The autobiography of Hanneke Ippisch, who, as a teenager, joined the Dutch resistance forces and worked to defeat the Nazis. After two years of covert meetings, secret deliveries, and near confrontations, Ippisch was captured by the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment. Illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, reproductions of documents, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Survivors' Songs: From Maldon to the Somme more books like this by Jon Stallworthy add to wishlist From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Patriotic gore more books like this by Edmund Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $4.75! first editions
22 view cover	Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War more books like this by Daniel Aaron add to wishlist Here, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why there is still no "masterpiece" of Civil War fiction. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	John Steinbeck Goes to War: The Moon Is Down as Propaganda more books like this by Donald V Coers add to wishlist In March 1942, a desperate period for the Allies in World War II, John Steinbeck published his propaganda novel "The Moon Is Down" - the story of ruthless invaders who overrun a militarily helpless country. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck underscored both the fatal weakness of the "invincible" unnamed aggressors and the inherent power of the human ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $28.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind. more books like this by Margaret Mitchell add to wishlist Published in 1936, GONE WITH THE WIND sold 50,000 copies on its first day, and two million after a year. Even though it is 1,037 pages long, readers all over the world snatched up the book; by 1937 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the movie rights had been sold to David O. Selznick. Mitchell prided herself on the historical accuracy of her ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The War Complex: World War II in Our Time more books like this by Marianna Torgovnick add to wishlist Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex - a set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death. This complex has led to gaps and hesitations in public discourse about atrocities committed during ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.66! \| first editions \| SVS

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