War Literature

aulsmith: World War I on the Western Front

aulsmith: I personally find the misogyny in this book so bad as to make it unreadable, but others think it is an important book about war.

aulsmith: US Civil War battlefield.

thorold: One of the best satirical accounts of war. Ever.

thorold: For my money, this is the best English novel about WW1

aulsmith: I personally can't stand this book, but others think it's an important war novel.

aulsmith: Civilians in the Thirty Years War.

thorold: An account of Waterloo by someone who knew what war was really like.

aulsmith : More an urban revolution than a war.

thorold: Love it or hate it, it's definitely war and definitely literature...

thorold : The War Trilogy is about the war; Brideshead is about what came before.

aulsmith : While some of this got at the experience of being in occupied territory during the war, I thought on the whole the book was too fluffy, especially to be called literature.