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Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:59:33 2016 No.8308490 [Reply] [Original]

What are some classics/literature that writes about the horrifying experience of war and the mental toll it has on soldiers?

>Excluding YA-tier novels.
>Only WWII, WWI or pre-world war (if there is anything good that far back).

Hard mode: Not about the six million.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:00:42 2016 No.8308496 the thin red line the naked and the dead

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:01:14 2016 No.8308498 >>8308490 pat barker's regeneration trilogy explored this excellently. definitely recommend it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:02:22 2016 No.8308503 >>8308490 I'll be the first to mention Storm of Steel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:02:48 2016 No.8308506 All Quiet on the Western Front obviously The best critique of war I've ever read was actually the first part of Journey to the End of the Night

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:03:41 2016 No.8308509 All Quiet on the Western Front

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 11:07:41 2016 No.8308522 File: 277 KB, 478x453, yikes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48 Tell me this isn't the most terrifying video you have ever seen in your life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:29:01 2016 No.8308704 Slaughterhouse Five

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:34:41 2016 No.8308715 >>8308490 The Cannibal

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:35:09 2016 No.8308717 File: 550 KB, 639x645, Screen Shot 2016-07-23 at 12.34.25 am.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8308704

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:38:36 2016 No.8308723 >>8308490 >>Only WWII, WWI or pre-world war (if there is anything good that far back). but y tho modern war is even more cruel and dehumanizing (and relevant) than all that

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:49:19 2016 No.8308771 >>8308754 Based Wilfred Owen “Strange friend,” I said, “here is no cause to mourn.” “None,” said that other, “save the undone years, The hopelessness..."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:52:27 2016 No.8308777 I don't know if it really counts but Johnny Got his Gun

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:54:59 2016 No.8308785 File: 35 KB, 400x462, 1415499900905.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8308717

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