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  WOLF, CHRISTA, A Model Childhood (1976; trans. London: Virago 1983)

  Korean War

  SALTER, JAMES, The Hunters (1956; reissue London: Harvill 1998)

  Vietnam War

  CAPUTO, PHILIP, ‘In the Forest of the Laughing Elephant’, in: Exiles (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1998)

  COETZEE, J.M., ‘The Vietnam Project’, in Dusklands (London: Secker & Warburg 1982)

  FRENCH, ALBERT, Patches of Fire (London: Secker & Warburg 1997)

  GREENE, GRAHAM, The Quiet American (London: William Heinemann 1955)

  HASFORD, GUSTAV, The Short-Timers (New York: Harper & Row 1979)

  HEINEMANN, LARRY, Paco’s Story (London: Faber and Faber 1986)

  HEINEMANN, LARRY, Close Quarters (London: Faber and Faber 1987)

  HOLLAND, WILLIAM E., Let a Soldier Die (London: Transworld 1985)

  HUONG, DUONG THU, Novel Without a Name (trans. London: Picador 1995)

  JONES, THOM, The Pugilist at Rest (London: Faber and Faber 1994)

  KOCH, CHRISTOPHER J., Highways to a War (London: William Heinemann 1995)

  MASON, BOBBIE ANN, In Country (London: Chatto & Windus 1986)

  MASON, BOBBIE ANN, ‘Big Bertha Stories’, in Love Life (London: Chatto & Windus 1989)

  NINH, BAO, The Sorrow of War (1991; trans. London: Secker & Warburg 1994)

  O’BRIEN, TIM, Going After Cacciato (London: Jonathan Cape 1978)

  O’BRIEN, TIM, The Things They Carried (London: Collins 1990)

  OLEN BUTLER, ROBERT, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (London: Secker & Warburg 1993)

  OLEN BUTLER, ROBERT, The Deep Green Sea (London: Secker & Warburg 1997)

  DEL VECCHIO, JOHN M., The 13th Valley (London: Sphere Books 1983)

  WEBB, JAMES, Fields of Fire (London: Granada 1980)

  WOLFF, TOBIAS, ‘Soldier’s Joy’, in Back in the World (London: Jonathan Cape 1986)

  Gulf War

  BEINHART, LARRY, American Hero (London: Century 1994)

  BLINN, JAMES, The Aardvark Is Ready For War (London: Doubleday 1997)

  FARLEY, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, My Favourite War (London: Granta 1997)

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  *1 Paul Déroulède (1847–1914). Writer and politician. Extreme nationalist, supporter of General Boulanger and founder of the League of Patriots.

  *2 Entrayes derives from entrailles, entrails (‘blood and guts’).

  *3 Byzantine general (500–565) who, according to legend, was blinded by order of Emperor Justinian. Numerous paintings show him as a beggar, holding out his reversed helmet for alms.

  *4 Popular cabaret singer early in the century.

  *5 President of the French Republic.

  *6 Ebert was the President of the German Weimar Republic and Noske his Minister of Defence. Balmashov conflates them into one person.

  *7 Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) became a national hero for his defence of Verdun in 1916. When France collapsed in June 1940, he negotiated the armistice with Germany and became Chief of State, establishing his government at Vichy. After the liberation in 1944, he was tried and convicted of treason.

  *8 A town north of Tours where Marshal Pétain met Hitler on 24 October 1940.

  *9 Charles Pierre Péguy (1873–1914), a poet who had died in the First World War; Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), popular dramatist.

  *10 Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the main branch of the Polish resistance directed by the government in London.