TY - BOOK ID - 78140424 TI - Cold War literature PY - 2006 SN - 128056380X 9786610563807 020369516X 9780203695166 0415349486 9780415349482 9781134272501 9781134272549 9781134272556 9780415544023 0415544025 1134272545 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - War and literature. KW - Cold War in literature. KW - Politics and literature. KW - Literature KW - Literature and politics KW - Literature and war KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140424 AB - The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted - in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere - in some twenty million dead. This collection of essays analyses the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe, and explores the various thematic and stylistic trends that Cold War hostilities ER -