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MILITARY FICTION OVERVIEW

A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources

CONTENTS General Sources.....p.1 Pre 20th Century -General Sources....p.2 -Civil War.....p.3 20th Century -General Sources…..p.3 -World War I…..p.4 -World War II…..p.5 -Korean War…..p.5 -Vietnam War.....p.6 Since 1975…..p.7

GENERAL SOURCES

Aichinger, Peter. The American Soldier in Fiction, 1880-1963: A History of Attitudes towards Warfare and the Military Establishment. Ames: Iowa U, 1975. PS374.M5.A4.

Beaumont, Roger A. "Military Fiction and Role: Some Problems and Perspectives." Military Affairs (Apr 1975): pp. 69-71. Per. Sociological role.

Bunting, Josiah, III. "The Military Novel." Naval War College Review (Nov/Dec 1973): pp. 30-38. Per.

Carnes, Mark C., editor. Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (and Each Other). NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 351 p. PS374.H5.N68.

Gole, Henry G. "Literature and History for Soldiers." Military Review (May 1988): pp. 3-15. Per. Advocates reading of pertinent memoirs and fiction.

Huebner, Andrew J. The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 2008. 371 p. E745.H84. Military Fiction p.2

Jones, Peter G. War and the Novelist: Appraising the American War Novel. Columbia, MO: U MO, 1976. PS379.J6.

Kindsvatter, Peter S. "Cowards, Comrades, and Killer Angels: The Soldier in Literature." Parameters (Jun 1990): pp. 31-49. Per. Fictionalized recounting of combat experience in novels offers usable lessons and insights.

Lawhon, Richard B. “The American Antiwar Novel, 1919-1979.” PhD dss, U SC, 1992. 255 p. PS374.W35.L38.

McPherson, Karen A. "The American Military in Fiction Since 1945." Armed Forces & Society (Summer 1983): pp. 647-63. Per.

Mattox, John M. “Henry V: Shakespeare’s Just Warrior.” War, Literature & the Arts (Spring/Summer 2000): pp. 30-53. Per. On the incorporation of the “just war” concept into the play.

Morton, John F., & Schemmer, Benjamin F. "The U.S. Naval Institute: Tradition Pays - And So Do Its Novels." Armed Forces Journal International (Apr 1988): pp. 40ff. Per. Tom Clancy's novels, especially Hunt for Red October.

Samet, Elizabeth D. Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 259 p. PS49U65S36.

Sharma, Rekha. “Drawn-Out Battles: Exploring War-Related Messages in Animated Cartoons.” In War and the Media: Essays on News Reporting, Propaganda and Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. pp. 75-91. P96.W352.U6.W37.

Smith, Myron J., Jr. War Story Guide: An Annotated Bibliography of Military Fiction. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1980. 437 p. Z5917W33S57.

PRE-20th CENTURY-General Sources

Rodriguez, Jaime J. The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity. Austin, TX: U TX, 2010. 306 p. PS208.R63.

See: -Bibliography on Charles King in Biographies. Military Fiction p.3

PRE-20th CENTURY-Civil War

Appleby, Joyce. "Reconstruction and the Northern Novelist, 1865-1880." Civil War History (Jun 1964): pp. 117-29. Per.

Faust, Drew G. "Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War." Journal of American History (Mar 1990): pp. 1200-28. Per. Analyzes gender roles of wartime South using Augusta Jane Evan's novel Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice as touchstone.

Lively, Robert A. Fiction Fights the Civil War: An Unfinished Chapter in the Literary History of the American People. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 1957. PS374.H5.L58.

Menendez, Albert J. Civil War Novels: An Annotated Bibliography. NY: Garland, 1986. 174 p. Z1231.F4.M46. Alphabetical listing by author, with subject index.

Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore. NY: Oxford, 1962. 816 p. PS211.W5.

See also: -Bibliography on Civil War Literature in Literature.

20TH CENTURY-General Sources

Bolton, Richard R. “Portrayal of the Garrison Military in American Fiction, 1946-1970.” PhD dss, WA State, 1972. 438 p. PS374.M5.B64.

Cunningham, Valentine, ed. Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War. NY: Oxford, 1986. 388 p. DP269.8.L5.S62. Anthology of prose & poetry.

Hanley, Lynne. Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory. Amherst, MA: U MA, 1991. 150 p. PR888.W37.H36. Feminist perspective on American & Brit writing & writers on 20th century wars.

Mackenzie, Scott A. “Doughboys to GIs to Grunts: The American Infantryman in Dramatic Literature, 1924-1985.” PhD dss, Wayne State, 2002. 200 p. PS338.S64.M32.

Newman, John, & Unsworth, Michael. Future War Novels: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English Published Since 1946. Phoenix, AZ: Orynx, 1984. 101 p. Z5917.W33.N49. Military Fiction p.4

20TH CENTURY-World War I

Bonadeo, Alfredo. Mark of the Beast: Death and Degradation in the Literature of the Great War. Lexington, KY: U KY, 1989. 172 p. PN56.W68.B65. Includess Italian literature.

Brockmann, Stephen M. "Mass Culture/Mass Death: The World War and Weimar Realism." PhD dss, U WI, Madison, 1989. 454 p. DD237.B76.

Cecil, Hugh. The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth, 1996. 440 p. PR830.W65.C43.

_____. "The Literary Legacy of the War: The Post-War British War Novel -A Select Bibliography." Home Fires and Foreign Fields. London: Brassey's, 1985. pp. 205-30. D546.H66.

Cooperman, Stanley. World War I and the American Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1970. 273 p. PS221.C63.

Gole, Henry G. "The Great War: A Literary Perspective." Parameters (Summer 1987): pp. 86-99. Per.

Graves, Mark A. "Comrades in (Each Other's) Arms: Male Bonding in Select Novels of WWI." PhD dss, Bowling Green, 1992. 274 p. PN56.W68.G72. American, British & French novels analyzed.

Simmonds, Roy S. The Two Worlds of William March. n.p.: U AL, 1984. 367 p. PS3505.A53157.Z85. March authored Company K.

Winter, J.M. The Experience of World War I. NY: Oxford, 1989. 256 p. D521.W48. Separate perspectives: politicians, generals, soldiers & civilians. Many graphs, illus & unique data file charts. See pp. 226-30.

See also: -Bibliography on World War I Literature. Military Fiction p.5

20TH CENTURY-World War II

Bright, Charles D. "The Literary and Historical Legacy, 1947-1987." Aerospace Historian (Sep 1987): pp. 206-13. Per.

Deutsch, James I. "Coming Home From the 'Good War': WWII Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction." PhD dss, Geo Wash U, 1991. 462 p. PN1995.9.V44.D48.

Evans, Arthur R., Jr. "Assignment to Armageddon: Ernst Junger and Curzio Malaparte on the Russian Front, 1941-1943." Central European History (Dec 1981): pp. 295-321. Per. Analysis of experiences of two officers/writers.

MacDonald, Charles B. "Novels of World War II: The First Round." Military Affairs (Spring 1949): pp. 42-46. Per.

Sabol, Regis T. “The Private vs. the General: The Conflict Between the Individual and the War Machine in Four American Novels of World War II.” PhD dss, IN U PA, 1993. 400 p. PS374.W66.S32.

Spencer, Andrew J. "Of Literature and Legend: German Writers and the Bombing of Dresden." PhD dss, OH State U, 1992. 305 p. D757.9.D7.S63.

Wermuth, Anthony L. "Novels of World War II: Fire for Effect." Military Review (Aug 1955): pp. 18-25. Per.

See also: -Bibliography on World War II Literature in Literature.

20TH CENTURY-Korean War

Hilbish, D. Melissa. “Advancing in Another Direction: The Comic Book and the Korean War.” War, Literature & the Arts (Spring/Summer 1999): pp. 209-27. Per.

West, Philip & Ji-moon, Suh. Remembering the “Forgotten War”: The Korean War Through Literature and Art Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 225 p. PL957.5K67R46. Military Fiction p.6

20TH CENTURY-Vietnam War

Beidler, Philip D. American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Athens, GA: U GA, 1982. 220 p. DS552.B343.

_____. Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation. Athens, GA: U GA, 1991. 332 p. DS557.7.L5.B44.

Boyle, Brenda M. Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives: A Critical Study of Fiction, Films and Nonfiction Writings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 201 p. DS559.8.L5.B69.

Jason, Philip K., ed. Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature. Iowa City, IA: Iowa U, 1991. 250 p. DS557.7.L5.F68.

Hall, Henry P., Jr. “The Enlisted Man’s War: A Study of the Vietnam War Novels.” PhD dss, TX, 1984. 211 p. PS228.V5.H34.

Kinney, Katherine Ann. "Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War." PhD dss, U PA, 1991. 239 p. DS557.7.L5.K56.

Klein, Michael, Ed. The Vietnam Era: Media and Popular Culture in the US and Vietnam. Winchester, MA: Pluto, 1989. 220 p. DS552.5.V47. 10 essays.

Neilson, Jim. Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative. Jackson, MS: U MS, 1998. 256 p. DS559.8.L5.N45. “Examines critical reception of Vietnam war novels and autobiographies.”

Newman, John. Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works About American Fighting in Vietnam. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1982. 117 p. Z1227.N49.

Prescott, Renate W. "Vietnam War Literature: The Movement from War to Home." PhD dss, Bowling Green, 1990. 167 p. DS557.7.L5.P73.

Puhr, Kathleen M. "Novelistic Responses to the Vietnam War." PhD dss, St Louis U, 1982. 253 p. DS557.7.L5.P83.

Ryan, Maureen. “The Vietnam War and Literature.” In America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation. NY: Routledge, 2010. pp. 209-30. DS559.8.S6.A54.

Schiller, David J. "The Armed Body of Men: American Stories of the Vietnam War." PhD dss, Columbia, 1992. 515 p. DS667.7.L5.S34. Military Fiction p.7

Stringer, Kenneth T., Jr. "A Substitute for Victory?: Fictional Portraits of the American Soldier and Combat in Vietnam." PhD dss, American U, 1984. 250 p. DS557.7.L5.S77.

Sullivan, Richard A. "The Recreation of Vietnam: The War in American Fiction, Poetry, and Drama." The Legacy. Boston: Beacon, 1990. pp. 157-85. DS552.5L45.

Ulisse, Peter. Vietnam Voices. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1990. PS3571L54V54.

Vietnam Heroes IV: Memories and Recollections in Story and Poem by Vietnam Veterans. Phila: American Poetry and Lit, 1985. 57 p. PS595V5V492.

Walsh, Jeffrey, & Aulich, James, eds. Vietnam Images: War and Representation. NY: St Martin's, 1989. 224 p. DS557.7A7V53. See Chaps 8-9.

Wittman, Sandra M. Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: Hall, 1989. 385 p. Z3226W58.

Wilson, James C. Vietnam in Prose and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1982. 130 p. DS557.7L5W54.

SINCE 1975

Peebles, Stacey L. Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2011. 192 p. PS228.W37.P44.