literature and the war

Presents critical essays on Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

A study of the mid-century American novel with critical commentary that encompasses the political literature of the 1930s, the beat movement of the 1950s, and the multicultural literature of the 1960s.

Contemporary paintings by war artists, cartoons, memorabilia, and photographs accompany poems by great poets of the 1914-1918 War.

Presents a study of the poetry written by Vietnam veterans during and after the war, and relates the horrors of the war and the physical and emotional traumas that occurred in a post-war America.