Advisors -- Guest foreword -- Introduction -- Literary chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Volume 1. War and peace in American literature -- War and peace in British literature -- War and peace in world literature -- Across five Aprils -- All quiet on the western front -- The art of war -- Black Hawk down: a story of modern war -- Born on the fourth of July -- Catch-22 -- "The charge of the light brigade" -- Cold mountain -- Common sense -- The diary of a young girl -- "Easter 1916" -- Farewell to Manzanar -- For whom the bell tolls -- Gone with the wind -- Henry V -- Hiroshima -- The house of the spirits -- Iliad -- "In Flanders fields" -- In the time of the butterflies -- "I will fight no more forever" -- Johnny Tremain -- The last of the Mohicans -- Le morte D'Arthur -- Volume 2. Night -- "O Captain! My Captain" -- "Patterns" -- Persepolis: the story of a childhood -- The red badge of courage -- Schindler's list -- A separate peace -- "The sniper" -- A tale of two cities -- "The things they carried" -- Things fall apart -- The tin drum -- War and peace -- The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts -- Anti-war protest -- Heroes and leaders -- Oppression and genocide -- Revolution and revolt -- Survival and recovery -- Terrorism -- Utopia and utopian ideals -- Violence and brutality -- Women and war -- What do I read next? -- Media adaptations -- Glossary of literary terms -- Cumulative author/title index -- Nationality/ethnicity index.