Broer (emeritus, English, U. of South Florida) explains in his introduction that the "war" referred to in the subtitle includes not only the "horrors of war and the idiocies of battle" in each
writer's work, but also "...each writer's embattled psyche...." He analyzes in detail Vonnegut's antagonisms toward Hemingway (though Vonnegut is viewed by some as "the most recognizably
Hemingwayesque of the new generation of writers to emerge after World War II"). Some of the works examined include A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls,
Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Slapstick. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
