The years after the Armistice were difficult; Nash was, in his own description, a "war artist without a war"; he suffered a nervous collapse, and was visited by terrible images; poison gas had damaged his lungs.
The experiences of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan don't show a clear relationship between forceful intervention to remove an authoritarian government, and the achievement of a stable end-state; while the description of war aims was least ambiguous in Iraq, that war produced the greatest net destabilisation of all.
With Harry's description of war as nothing more than "organised murder", it is difficult not to feel like a pacifist.
And I am sure that, back home in the UK, there will be some who gleefully lap up Harry-the-lad's tales of derring-do and description of war as a game.
But it does seem a fair critique to suggest that military shooters turn the classic description of war on its head, converting the experience into long periods of sheer terror punctuated by moments of boredom.
At his most hard-nosed, in the 1930s, Louis Aragon criticised it sharply for its aestheticism and frivolity, declaring that no poem should countenance any description of war that made it look attractive.
With their juxtaposition of the cosmic and the mundane, the Russian meteor videos reminded me of Tolstoy's description, in "War and Peace," of the comet of 1812: Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised….
The name "Foo Fighters" was taken from the description World War II aircraft pilots would use to describe various UFOs.
"War/Dance" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for some thematic material involving descriptions of war atrocities.
Previously she has written moment-by-moment descriptions of war movies – including Apocalypse Now and Black Hawk Down – and of the experience of drawing from a live model.
