These excerpts could prove useful to a discussion of Ravenous and The Sorrow of War.
Two entries from Ness, Immanuel, Cope, Zak (Eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.
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“So as to give them courage we must teach people to be shocked by themselves.”
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