Writing war in the twentieth century / Margot Norris.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286) and index.

Writing war in the twentieth century: an introduction -- The trace of the trenches: revisiting modernism and World War I -- The novel as war: lies and truth in Hemingway's A farewell to arms -- The novel of depopulation: Remarque's All quiet on the western front -- Unmaking and remaking a world: Thomas Keneally's book and Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's list -- Dividing the indivisible: the fissured story of the Manhattan Project -- Writing the apocalypse of Hiroshima -- Modernism and Vietnam: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now -- Only the guns have eyes: military censorship and the body count in the Persian Gulf War.