O N A RT AND W AR AND T ERROR ALE X DANCHEVīy the same author Very Special Relationship (Brassey’s, 1986) Establishing the Anglo-American Alliance (Brassey’s, 1990) International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict (ed.) (Macmillan, 1992) The Franks Report: The Falkland Islands Review (ed.) (Pimlico, 1992) Oliver Franks (Clarendon, 1993) International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict (ed.) (Macmillan, 1994) Fin de Siècle: The Meaning of the Twentieth Century (ed.) (I. Jacket design: EdinburghĮdinburgh University Press 22 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LF Reproduced with permission, Simon Norfolk/ nbpictures. Jacket image: Gold Beach by Simon Norfolk. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed biographies, of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Oliver Franks, Basil Liddell Hart and Georges Braque, and co-editor of the bestselling War Diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke.
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We need all the protection we can get.Īlex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. It traffics in war poetry, war photography, war films, war stories, war diaries and the like, but also in war itself: in blood – blood like a carwash, as Christopher Logue’s Homer has it – and therefore in political legitimacy, moral authority, civility, depravity, terror, torture, honour and conscience not to speak of strange things like active passivity and senseless kindness. This is a book about violence of both kinds. The nobility of poetry, says Wallace Stevens, is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. Employing its second sight, they pigg y-back on its moral benefits. They put the imagination to work, in the service of historical, political and ethical inquiry.
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‘Whatever is given,’ he writes in his own idiom, ‘can always be reimagined, however four-square/Plank-thick, hull-stupid and out of its time/It happens to be.’ The essays collected here seek to investigate these claims. ALE X DANCHEV ‘The imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it.’ That is the credo and manifesto of this book.