Besides Sgt. Rock, whom he drew for decades, and Our Army at War, a DC series of the 1950s and afterward, Mr. Kubert explored war and violence in a series of graphic novels he wrote and illustrated in recent years: "Fax From Sarajevo" (1996), about the Bosnian civil war; "Yossel" (2003), about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising; and "Dong Xoai" (2010), about the Vietnam War.
"There hasn't been a Star Wars movie yet that has explored war the way The Last Jedi has," said John Boyega, who plays the heroic stormtrooper-turned-rebel Finn.
"Once Upon a Wartime," a new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, explores war through five children's books.
By Elissa Lerner February 14 , 2011"Once Upon a Wartime," a new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, explores war through five children's books.
The setting was a workshop exploring war and its psychological aftermath, held on Friday evening at the headquarters of Intersections International, a social justice nonprofit group, on Fifth Avenue in Midtown.
In the title story, Grossman explores war from the perspective of a down-trodden mule that ends up as one of the few survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad.
"There are books that explore war, slavery, civil rights and equality, others that re-imagine ancient myths, stories of coming-of-age and tales that span time and space, firing imaginations with every page that is read".
In her poignant, haunting "Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier," Ms. Rogoff explores war in general and in particular through the experiences of her father in World War II in Burma and through reminiscences of veterans of battles in Korea, Vietnam and other arenas in World War II.
The Bhagavad-Gita, a particularly compelling section of "The Mahabharata," explores war, duty and fate from a mystical perspective, through a colloquy between the Hindu god Krishna and Prince Arjuna, who is about to fight the opening battle in a civil war but hesitates when he sees friends, relatives and teachers on both sides of the battlefield.
More than two generations of Germans have been raised to keep a critical distance from their country's recent history, opening the possibility for an armed forces museum that doesn't trumpet past victories but more abstractly explores war as a phenomenon of human existence.
Several other theater producers and artistic directors echoed his desire for exploring war through a prism of hopefulness, but they were torn about whether productions that deal directly with Iraq and Afghanistan, or with Israel and the Palestinians, would appeal to wide audiences.
