Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front- ,Trumbo: Johnny Got his Gun, On the Beach, any of Phil Berrigan's books, recently departed Howard Zinn's. A J Muste, Ghandi (sp?), King, Simone Weill, -books by conscientious objectors...protestors...deserters, even!
doesn't Hemingway seem a bit too much in love w the macho?

Ha, i beat the war mongers to the punch
any book that praises war in the slightest? A soldier wld question it!!

I wonder if there's really been a good pro war book? Name me one.

The Things We Carried, for example- is revolting in its realism- but is there a protest in it?

here comes the capcha- was gilsey

today written by Louis Caroll

We used to live in Auburn, so I got to meet General Moore and hear him speak. He is a remarkable man and it was fascinating to hear him speak. I read his book and learned a lot even though some of it was over my head.

I'd have to say "Dispatches" by Michael Herr. I was born after the Vietnam War and we never really covered it in History class, but Herr's writing is so visceral that at times I think I can imagine what that era must have been like.

Now I remember- the greatest war book is, hands down- Poems- Wilfred Owen- I have a copy of the first american edition- publisher was heubsch- if i remember-cost me plenty- but the first english ed?- outta site- thousands.
Owen's haunting poems are made more powerful by the fact that he lived the stuff of which he writes- he killed (i believe) and was killed- World War 1- western front- if i ever visit his grave- i will b so sad- but also inspired!!!
His verse has a vatic, hymnic, phrasing, rhythm and meaning that is extra powerful- it almost rises off the page.
"Strange Meeting" - "You are the enemy I killed, my friend"- and so on...
If that doesn't make a conscientious objector out of you- i don't know what would. and yet many have not got that far in english class