War and Literature
Burns, Tom / Cornelsen, Elcio / Jaeckel, Volker![War and Literature](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/164/16477987/CHSBZCOP0316477987.jpg)
This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First World War has changed war itself, rendering meaningless the very vocabulary of war in terms such as "battle", "front", "non-combatant", "open city" and "hero", new words, new approaches, new theories and new texts had to be invented. The enemy became invisible: Submarines, tanks, mines, g...