For such a substantial and outwardly formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible. Adam Piette reminds us twice that this volume is ‘exemplary rather than comprehensive’, aiming ‘to inspire new directions’ and ‘roads that might be taken in the future’. One of its strengths is this awareness that it is not the definitive

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