Thanks go out to all those—too numerous to list—who assisted with the planning and
development of the volume. I'm grateful for the input of Jack Heeney, Rebecca Hinsley and …

The publication of Sweet Tooth in 2012 confirmed McEwan's interest in the Cold War themes
of global politics and the individual experience, extending them into the 1970s politics of the …

At the climax of John le Carré's Absolute Friends (2004), the finest fictional evocation of the
deep genealogical links between the Cold War and the ongoing “war on terror,” the novel's …

The relation of the Cold War, as four decades of global conflict, to literature is puzzling: this
article is a first, tentative and necessarily meandering, attempt to identify the puzzle and …

War is a powerful and enduring literary topos, a repeated theme in both secular and
religious literary genres of the middle ages. The idea and practice of war is central to some …

The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its
conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was …

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Given the inherent insanity of war, that it turns conventional morality and nearly everyone
and all social institutions upside down, it is not surprising that, at least in literature, war's …

The waging of war has often required the performance of extraordinary acts and exacted
extraordinary sacrifices on the part of the combatants. World War I was no exception. Six …

NC: Duke UP, 2005. 387 pp. $23.95. ver the last decade, scholars of mid-century literature
and culture have produced significant bodies of work that suggest the richness and …