The war essays, like her other political work, reflect what she called her obsession with power and powerlessness.
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His cold war essays, collected in The Secret World: Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War (IB Tauris £25), condemn the "squalid trio" of Cambridge agents – Maclean, Burgess and Philby – who betrayed compatriots to the Soviet Union.
The author Susan Sontag won for cultural criticism for "Looking at War," an essay in The New Yorker on the history of modern warfare as seen through the lens of photojournalism.
As Towell writes in his introductory essay, "War is completely natural, which is what makes it so appalling".
Last week, she posted a "War Dog" photo essay, with her favorite pictures of dogs jumping out of helicopters, skydiving from 30,000 feet and relaxing with Marines.
Both of them, as Arthur Schlesinger noted in his essay "War and the Constitution," "were lawyers who, while duly respecting their profession, regarded law as secondary to political leadership".
It also contains Dahl's first ever published story, about crashlanding in Libya during the war, and an essay – Lucky Break - about how he came to write it.
Two exceptions were "War Memories," an essay whose loose, bittersweet style anticipates Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," and "Manacled," a short story about an actor trapped in handcuffs and leg irons as a theatre burns down.
The question of the Great American Novel — whether it exists and, if so, what defines it — was first put forth just after the Civil War, in an essay by the novelist John W. De Forest.
