Philip D. Beidler is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author of many works of cultural and literary criticism, among them The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War; The Island Called Paradise: Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts; Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam; and American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire.

In his 'Conclusion', Beidler writes that wars now seem endless and art will always be made from them, but someone else will have to explain it. He has had enough. He is through. Goodbye to all that. To which I can only say: Thank you for your service." - The Tuscaloosa News"Beidler offers us a dazzling array of case studies that, when taken together, convey the seemingly inexhaustible energy that Western cultures continue to pour into the representations of war via an ever-changing and ever-expanding set of technologies and the protean nature of armed conflict as a locus for collective memory." - Steven Trout, author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941"The subject of war is, of course, an important one, but what separates this book from many others on the subject is its unusual focus on so many forms of art—literature, film, music, visual art, poetry, photography, architecture, sculpture, shrines, memorials, and the museums that contain such—as they reflect on the intense human response that war induces." - Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Dreadful Fascination1. Arms and the Bard: Soldiering in Shakespeare2. Bury Their Hearts at Horseshoe Bend3. Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Reenactors in the Attic4. What Lady Butler Knew5. Qingdao and the Archaeologies of War6. Ralph Vaughan Williams's Long Journey Out of War7. History and Memory in the Great War Paintings of John Singer Sargent8. The Great Party Crasher: Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the Cultures of World War I Remembering9. What Kurt Vonnegut Saw in World War II that Made Him Insane (Along with Billy Pilgrim, Rabo Karabekian, Eliot Rosewater, and Others)10. Script by Stephen Crane, Novel by John Huston, Movie by MGM11. In the Museo de la Revolucíon; or, The Ghost of José Martí12. By the Numbers: Americans, Vietnamese, and the Figures of SacrificeConclusion: The Forever WarsNotes on Sources and Further ReadingIndex

Philip D. Beidler is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author of many works of cultural and literary criticism, among them The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War; The Island Called Paradise: Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts; Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam; and American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire.

In his 'Conclusion', Beidler writes that wars now seem endless and art will always be made from them, but someone else will have to explain it. He has had enough. He is through. Goodbye to all that. To which I can only say: Thank you for your service." - The Tuscaloosa News"Beidler offers us a dazzling array of case studies that, when taken together, convey the seemingly inexhaustible energy that Western cultures continue to pour into the representations of war via an ever-changing and ever-expanding set of technologies and the protean nature of armed conflict as a locus for collective memory." - Steven Trout, author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941"The subject of war is, of course, an important one, but what separates this book from many others on the subject is its unusual focus on so many forms of art—literature, film, music, visual art, poetry, photography, architecture, sculpture, shrines, memorials, and the museums that contain such—as they reflect on the intense human response that war induces." - Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Dreadful Fascination1. Arms and the Bard: Soldiering in Shakespeare2. Bury Their Hearts at Horseshoe Bend3. Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Reenactors in the Attic4. What Lady Butler Knew5. Qingdao and the Archaeologies of War6. Ralph Vaughan Williams's Long Journey Out of War7. History and Memory in the Great War Paintings of John Singer Sargent8. The Great Party Crasher: Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the Cultures of World War I Remembering9. What Kurt Vonnegut Saw in World War II that Made Him Insane (Along with Billy Pilgrim, Rabo Karabekian, Eliot Rosewater, and Others)10. Script by Stephen Crane, Novel by John Huston, Movie by MGM11. In the Museo de la Revolucíon; or, The Ghost of José Martí12. By the Numbers: Americans, Vietnamese, and the Figures of SacrificeConclusion: The Forever WarsNotes on Sources and Further ReadingIndex