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19857551 No.19857551 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: books with honest depictions of war

>> No.19857576
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>>19857551

>> No.19857585

>>19857551
The Things They Carried; Slaughterhouse-Five; Catch-22; &c

>> No.19857586

Do you mean to say "books with depictions of war which i agree with?" Most authors are probably fairly honest when dealing with such things. Hemingway had a very different view of war but it is difficult to call it dishonest, just a different perspective and a different purpose in the work.

>> No.19857590

>>19857586
Honest as in the author is recounting a firsthand experience

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>>19857590
Not that anon but in that case, >>19857576 and pic related too

>> No.19857652

>>19857590
Got it. It is getting difficult to not assume the worst in this place, nice to be surprised. Can't offer much from that view, most of the war related books I read are more informed by the author's war experiences than about depicting them, can only add the obvious so I will leave my contribution at instigating clarification.

>> No.19857674

Dispatches by Michael Herr. It’s interesting to see the perspective of war through the eyes of a correspondent.

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>> No.19857697

>>19857652
Understandable, many threads are simply bait now.