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This document provides summaries for 14 books about representations of war across different genres, settings, and time periods. The books cover topics like the wars in Iraq, Vietnam, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. Some of the genres represented are fiction, memoir, biography, and nonfiction. The summaries briefly describe the plot or content of each book in 1-2 sentences.
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- 1. Representations of WarBook Choices
- 2. Genre: FictionSetting: Iraq War on TerrorPerry is a recent high-school graduate who went against his parents wishes and signed up for the Army. He writes letters to his uncle about his experiences as a soldier.
- 3. Genre: FictionSetting: EnglandModern dayDaisy takes a trip to visit her aunt and cousins, but war breaks out in England while her aunt is away on business, leaving Daisy and her cousins to survive on their own.
- 4. Genre: BiographySetting: Vietnam 1970sThere have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. A legend in the Marine ranks, Hathcock stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines-on their own ground. And each time he emerged from the jungle having done his duty. His record is one of the finest in military history, with 93 confirmed kills.
- 5. Genre: NonfictionSetting: Bosnia/Sweden 1990sS. lies in a Hospital in Sweden, where she has just given birth to a baby boy. She refuses to nurse him. The woman lying next to her is shocked by her behavior, but she does not know the history of how this boy was conceived. As she lies in the hospital bed, S. remembers the summer of 1992, from the day when the soldiers rounded up the occupants of the Muslim village of B., shot the men and herded the shocked, obedient women onto buses. She remembers life in the camp, where she was assigned to help E., the nurse, tend the sick, and the horrible rumors about the "women's room," where women are taken for the Serbian soldiers to rape.
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