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1939-1945

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

Why I’m a Pacifist

by Nicholson Baker,

The dangerous myth of the Good War

Kinds of Killing

by William H. Gass,

The flourishing evil of the Third Reich

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Did he, as a Navy pilot, strafe a lifeboat?

About forty years ago, in a high-school English class, I learned that talking about literature, like talking about yourself, incurs some small dangers of self-revelation, even though literary talk is…

My War

by Paul Fussell,

How I got irony in the infantry

“Unhappy Talk”

by Hayes B. Jacobs,

A non-psychologist, with an honorable discharge, reports on the quaint speech patterns among sex-starved, unrelaxed island dwellers.

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

by William Jeremiah Coughlin,

Was this the deadliest error of our time?

Was D-Day a Mistake?

by Gordon Scott Harrison,

1939-1945

Conjectural damage

Why I’m a Pacifist

Kinds of Killing

Dearest Bug

Barbed Wire

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

Literary Talk

My War

“Unhappy Talk”

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

Was D-Day a Mistake?

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1939-1945

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Conjectural damage

Why I’m a Pacifist

Kinds of Killing

Dearest Bug

Barbed Wire

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

Literary Talk

My War

“Unhappy Talk”

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

Was D-Day a Mistake?

August 1951

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