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The Self-Reflexive War: War Looking at Film Looking at War - This essay by Kalí Tal discusses the images of film in two novels by Vietnam veterans -- Robert Anderson's "Service for the Dead" and Stephen Wright's "Meditations in Green" -- because these works use film and the filmmaker as a central metaphor.
Black, Karen - Code of Conduct takes place during the Vietnam war; not so much a blood and guts war novel but an emotional tale of a family torn apart by war, over seven years of separation, and the long journey to reconstruct their lives.
Tibbetts, Peggy - Rumors of War. Persian Gulf War alters lives of ordinary Minnesota family in a political thriller that explores the reasons for war.
Yee's War Fiction Reviews - A small collection of reviews of war novels by Danny Yee.
The Mind at War - This essay by Kalí Tal is concerned with the re-vision of images of women in novels written by American combat veterans of the Vietnam War, and a new examination of the connection that those images have with the author's process of healing from the trauma of combat.
Novels of the Korean War - Phil Jason's bibliographies of Korean War novels and short fiction.
Conversation Across a Century: The War Stories of Ambrose Bierce and Tim O Brien - Christopher Campbell argues that, in the literature of Bierce and O'Brien, similarities of theme and treatment attest to the universality of the soldier s experience. Likewise, differences of tone and meaning in the tales of each writer tell us more about contrasts between the philosophies of the authors than the dissimilarities of their wars or times.
The Beleaguered Individual - This doctoral dissertation by Patrick Paul Christle examines 20th century American war novels and argues that war is a sort of intensified experience of and an allegory for the world at large for the authors studied. Thus, they use the battlefield as the stage upon which to work out their explorations of what it means to be a modern individual.
The Literature of the Vietnam War - Brief overview by Susan Farrell of the literature that has come out of the Vietnam War.
Laos: Three Perspectives on a Secret War - Review of "The Laotian Fragments," "Air America," and "Escape from Laos." Major Tilford believes these three books give important glimpses into three diverse facets of the war in Laos, which remains blanketed in secrecy.

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Cold War espionage - Cold War espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Because each side was preparing to fight the other, intelligence on the opposing side's intentions, military, and technology was of paramount importance.
Espionage Made Easy - Espionage Made Easy is the second full-length studio album from Californian hardcore/metalcore band, Cold War. It was released in May, 2007 on the notable independent hardcore specialist label, Indecision Records.
Cold war (general term) - A cold war (or bipolar superpower confrontation) is a state of battle between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, acts of espionage or conflict through surrogates (proxy wars). The surrogates are typically states that are "satellites" of the conflicting nations, i.
Espionage Act of 1917 - The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. It was punishable by a maximum $ ...
Cold War - The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.