Remembrance Day readers' advisory: eleven books to help us contemplate the reality of war, and thus oppose it.
1. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, Christopher Hedges
3. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
4. The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
5. Regeneration, Pat Barker
6. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. Comfort Woman, Nora Okja Keller
8. Why Men Fight, Bertrand Russell
9. Hiroshima, John Hersey
10. The Deserter's Tale, Joshua Key and Lawrence Hill
11. Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
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