How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

by Diana C. Gill

How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the colonists of the early seventeenth century, and ending with the diaries and letters from Iraqi war vets. The book tracks the effects of war in private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era allowing the writers to 'speak' to each other across time to reveal a profound commonality of cultural experience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000856BKK
• ISBN13: 9781135148942
• Release Date: January 1931
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages