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5 paź 2014 · Our shared memory of the first world war has been significantly shaped by poets and novelists – so what role does literature play in the aftermath of this new kind of political conflict?
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19 lut 2024 · Books. From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime. Nazis burned books; the U.S. shipped them to its troops; Alexander the Great, Hitler, and Stalin were keen bibliophiles. How to...
War literature can be impactful because it tries to explain the experiences of war to those who have not experienced it. War literature can be used to expose the reality of war and serve as a warning to future generations. Arguably, war literature helps humans empathise with the pain of others.
26 cze 2024 · A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war. In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund...
Looking at every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option, and why it is likely to be part of our future as well as our past.
Trojan War in the whole of ancient Western literature is so central that it can be considered the single most important topic of the body of literature inherited from early Western civilization. Similarly, in the large body of early European literature constituted by medieval sagas and epics, war is
8 cze 2019 · 1984 will always be an essential book, regardless of changes in ideologies, for its portrayal of one person struggling to hold on to what is real and valuable. “Sanity is not...
