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July 12, 2007

How Reading War Literature Helped Me Know Our Current War Was a BAD Idea

People are sometimes surprised or disappointed by my interest in war literature. It's gruesome and depressing; why would I want to study stuff like that? Maybe because then I already know about stuff like these "routine atrocities" reported by The Nation and can try to prevent it happening again.

Posted by holly at July 12, 2007 12:08 PM

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By spike on July 12, 2007 1:56 PM

Thanks for posting this, and for the link to the Nation story. The Nation interviews are important enough that the story was today's lead, front-page article in The Independent.

It's not so much a literary reference, but because of a strange story today about the Queen and the BBC, there was some coverage of her (unrelated) visit to Passchendaele in Belgium.

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