Friendly Fire in the Literature of War
The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus''s Persians and Larry Heinemann''s Paco''s Story. It marks the turning point in Homer''s Iliad, Virgil''s Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane''s The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O''Brien''s Going After Cacciato. It is the subject o...
The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus''s Persians and Larry Heinemann''s Paco''s Story. It marks the turning point in Homer''s Iliad, Virgil''s Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane''s The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O''Brien''s Going After Cacciato. It is the subject o...
