Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800-1918

Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a ''strange friend''. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and reassessment between military enemies--truces, treatment of the wounded, relationships with prisoners of war. It is concerne...