Description
Memoirs, histories and fictions of war have generally been regarded as the end products of battle, spawned and shaped by the actuality of conflict. In Fighting Fictions Kevin Foster challenges this long-held belief to offer and fresh analysis and a new definition of the narratives which shape our responses to war. Covering the Spanish Civil War, the First and Second World Wars and the Gulf War, but focusing primarily on the conflict in the Falklands, Foster surveys an extraordinarily broad selection of material