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An Introduction War has given writers much material to use in books, short stories, descriptive essays, poems etc. Sometimes these merely narrate incidents and bring them up to story form. For instance Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece, War and Peace, tells the story of five families during the Napoleonic Wars, "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill which was also made into the movie, and Ernest's Hemmingway's "A Farewell to Arms", which examines how World War 1 impacted the lives of several characters---including an ambulance driver. The film, based on the novel, earned Academy Awards for cinematography and sound recording, Apart from the poems "Six Young Men" by Ted Hughes and "War Photographer" by Carol Anne Duffy, "Vergissmeinicht" by Keith Douglas and "Bombing Casualties in Spain" by Herbert Read also show the futility of war, without minimizing the horrors it creates. Some of these books go into the economics of war....

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