Aftermath Quote by Sasa Stanisic

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings…

— Virginia Woolf

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…

— Pat Barker

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

A radically new chapter in the history of war

— Jfc Fuller

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

“The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work.”

— Sun Tzu

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

— Douglas Sirk

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human…

— Elijah Wood

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe