Essays on Generals Die in Bed

Harrisons novel “Generals Die in Bed” is narrated by an anonymous soldier stationed in the infamous trenches of World War 1. The soldier tells of the slaughterhouse of war with horrific and uncompromising description. Throughout the text there are a few instances of heroism and...

Throughout history war has caused casualties numbering in the hundreds of millions, and as much as people would enjoy to look at these past barbaric catastrophes as an act of Armageddon, that is almost simply never the case. War itself has never been, and will...

It is widely agreed that the epistemologies of composers writing about World War One (WW1) have significantly impacted stigmas and perceptions of that war. If literature is to play this crucial role in feeding society’s understanding of the atrocities of war it becomes imperative that...