War

War is continuing in at least 4 areas of the world - in different phases of war: Sudan; Kashmir, Ukraine, the Middle East. The state of war, contrary to what we would wish to believe, seems permanent. It seems part of the human condition - and it is marked in literature. Just peer into the history of the last century as well as this.   The common thread  is the effect it has on people, traced by writers, poets, artists. And it shows up in our collection of books.  At the beginning of the 20th century was the First World War (WW1) ('the war to end all wars')see Poets of the First World War. This was followed by the Spanish Civil War see Orwell and then WW2 see: Second World War Poetry in English, the Vietnam War  see: Learning War, Iraq War see A Reluctant Guest and so on....