One-third of "The Reel Civil War" concentrates on these two movies.
This version of a totally futile and unnecessary war concentrates on the fate of the individual, with death and squalor in the trenches, the terrible moonscape of no man's land, "going over the top", the war poets, the executions of deserters and the incompetence of generals mounting doomed attacks.
Most accounts of the war concentrate on the second phase, but the early one was more critical.
Rebuilding of the town centre at the end of the war concentrated on separating pedestrians from motor traffic, and the new city centre is encircled by an inner ring road.
Looked at today, the last part of Star Wars concentrates on a problem that might have been invented after, not 14 years before, the 1991 Persian Gulf War: how to fly a computerized, one-man jet fighter down a narrow corridor under heavy antiaircraft fire and drop a missile into an impossibly small air shaft, the sole vulnerable spot in the Emperor's Death Star.
He stays loyal to this method in "To End All Wars," concentrating on the appalling losses suffered by the rank and file and the extraordinary courage of those who decided that the war was not a just one.
"Inferno" offers an account of the war that concentrates on the lived experience of the men and women who took part in it.
Hochschild's stirring history of World War I concentrates on the losses suffered by Britain's rank and file and on the courage of those, like the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who decided the war was not a just one.
Set during the Allied occupation of Iran during the second world war, it concentrates on the antics of an extended family who all live in an old-fashioned compound, ruled over by a paranoid patriarch, the Uncle.
Although Power begins her magisterial chronicle of failure with the Turkish extermination of the Armenians during the First World War, she concentrates on America's recent reluctance to intervene in the mass slaughter of civilians in Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda.
Bates's war novel concentrates on the continuance of love, and the possibility of renewal, his hero and heroine exhibiting levels of trust and commitment undimmed by their experiences.
