Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...War and Remembrance, Wouk...
...Third World War, Hackett...
...War, as Jonathan Swift put it, is that "mad game the world so loves to play." If the game is even madder these days because of the threat of nuclear annihilation, the world has learned to keep alive humanity's fascination with it by doing what both Homer and the Bible did so well: replaying the big wars at a safe distance. Almost 40 years after it began, just 34 years last week after it ended with the surrender of Japan, World War II, the biggest war in history, is thriving today with remarkable vigor in the minds...
...sappy comedy to high tragedy, engendering chillers, thrillers and even fantasies that have been coming forth in salvos of histories, novels, movies and television shows. Furthermore, say experts who keep an eye on such trends, although it has not yet given birth to a Gone With the Wind, World War II is at last supplanting the Civil War as the country's favorite conflict for probing, pondering and-to be honest-enjoying...
...sure, has always shown a lively interest in World War II, but in the past few years the American appetite for war lore has begun to seem downright voracious-and is being fed as though it might be insatiable. Bantam Books, for instance, has put out 31 nonfiction books about the war in the past 18 months, 15 of them at a single pop last March, and all as part of an ambitious plan to put both new and old accounts of the war on the racks continually and indefinitely. Reflecting the same market mood, subscriptions to TIME-LIFE Books...