![]() Kennedy’s thinking on the Cuban Missile Crisis - which kicked off only months after this book’s publication, in 1962. ![]() It’s so influential that it reportedly shaped John F. The definitive history of World War I, Tuchman’s book focuses on the calamitous series of errors, obligations and aggressions that forced nations into conflict. (Sample passage: “Ilse and I hastily exchanged the first sentences: ‘How many times were you raped, Ilse?’ ‘Four, and you?’ ‘No idea, I had to work my way up the ranks, from supply train to major.’”)Įrnest Hemingway offered readers these instructions: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” These 50 books test that view, and many more. Here, we’ve leaned toward a 360-degree view of warfare, from a German officer’s POV on World War I, to an African-American poet’s experiences in Vietnam, to a woman’s account of the rape of Berlin. We won’t pretend that this is all-inclusive, and we’ve left off some canonical works - but you don’t need us to tell you to read Catch-22, Anne Frank’s diary or Slaughterhouse-Five. These 50 books tell the story of warfare from all perspectives: soldier and citizen, prisoner and guard, warrior and philosopher. What it does present is the opportunity to consider the evolution of 100 years worth of warfare - from the animalistic meat grinder that awaited American troops in the battlefields of Belgium and northern France to today’s atomized conflicts - as told by the literature created in its century-long wake. operations in the Middle East is as yet unknown. Whether the latter is recorded as a one-off warning shot, deft attention-shifting or the opening salvo in renewed U.S. The last few weeks have presented an unlikely echo in American military history: the U.S.’s entry into World War I and - precisely a century later - the Trump presidency’s bombing of a Syrian airfield.
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