Chronology
Introduction Kate McLoughlin
Part I. Themes: 1. The idea of war Hew Strachan
2. War and words Kate McLoughlin
3. People in war Sarah Cole
4. War zones Adam Piette
5. War in print journalism Kate McLoughlin
Part II. Influences: 6. The Bible David Jasper
7. Classical war literature L. V. Pitcher
Part III. Poetics: 8. Medieval warfare Corinne Saunders
9. Early modern war writing and the British Civil Wars Philip West
10. The eighteenth century and the Romantics on war Gillian Russell
11. American Revolutionary War writing Edward Larkin
12. The Victorians and war John R. Reed
13. The American Civil War Will Kaufman
14. The First World War: British writing Trudi Tate
15. The First World War: American writing Patrick Quinn
16. The Spanish Civil War Valentine Cunningham
17. The Second World War: British writing Mark Rawlinson
18. The Second World War: American writing Walter Hölbling
19. American writing of the wars in Korea and Vietnam Jeffrey Walsh
20. The Cold War and the 'War on Terror' David Pascoe
Index.