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War music and war psychology in the Civil War.

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1941
In the Civil War soldiers and civilians expressed themselves almost exactly as they had before the war was declared. Because both sides had had a common musical tradition, they both sang the same songs, regardless of the fact that logically they should have had nothing in common but bitter enmity.
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Waging War on War

2015
The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich—and by no means naïve—seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. This book engages with the question of what makes a text anti-war.
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The War After the War

Soviet Studies in History, 1991
Were we to ask right now on the streets of Moscow what the USSR's losses during World War Two were, practically everyone would respond, "twenty million." Some might add that 8.6 million of these were servicemen who died directly on the battlefield and that no less than four million had died of wounds in hospitals.
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War as Play, War as Slaughter, and the Laws of War

2018
Johan Huizinga (1955) wrote a groundbreaking work on play and its relation to culture in 1938. This book, entitled Homo Ludens, makes a strong case for the more general claim that the play function in human culture is as important as the work function and human reasoning; in short, for Huizinga, our species is not only Homo Sapiens and Homo Faber (man ...
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From War to War

1995
The war of 1967 was to prove as decisive in its consequences as that of 1948–9. It left Israel firmly in control of all the land of mandatory Palestine, as well as extensive Egyptian and Syrian territory, and tilted the balance of Middle East power firmly in an Israeli direction.
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The War to End War

1989
A triptych: Part I is the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Part II is a Dadaist vaudeville, as the Dead Soldier rises from the grave as a minstrel comedian and Wittgenstein and Brockdorff-Rantzau become vaudevillians in a variety revue seemingly hosted by Kurt Schwitters, the German artist who created word poetry. Part III is a poker game at Los Alamos.
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