Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts.
This Selection has been prepared by Rick Rozoff.
Amiel on war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/amiel-on-war/
Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh
https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/leonid-andreyev-the-red-laugh/
Henri Barbusse: Under Fire
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/henri-barbusse-under-fire/
Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/ambrose-bierce-an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge/
James Boswell: On War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/james-boswell-on-war/
Randolph Bourne: The War and the Intellectuals
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/randolph-bourne-the-war-and-the-intellectuals/
Georg Brandes: An Appeal Against Wholesale Murder
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/georg-brandes-an-appeal-against-wholesale-murder/
Bertolt Brecht: German Miserere
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/bertolt-brecht-german-miserere/
Homo homini lupus: William Cowper on war and man’s inhumanity to man
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/homo-homini-lupus-william-cowper-on-war-and-mans-inhumanity-to-man/
Stephen Crane: War Is Kind
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/stephen-crane-war-is-kind/
Austin Dobson: Before Sedan
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/austin-dobson-before-sedan/
John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/john-dos-passos-three-soldiers/
1862: Dostoevsky on the new world order
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/1862-dostoevsky-on-the-new-world-order/
Georges Duhamel: The Fleshmongers, War’s Winnowing Basket
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/georges-duhamel-wars-winnowing-basket-the-fleshmongers/
Eça de Queiroz: Afghanistan
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/eca-de-queiroz-afghanistan/
Erasmus: The Complaint of Peace
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/erasmus-the-complaint-of-peace/
Fichte: The inexorable law of universal peace
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/fichte-the-inexorable-law-of-universal-peace/
Anatole France on war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/anatole-france-on-war/
Vsevolod Garshin: Four Days
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/vsevolod-garshin-four-days/
Maxim Gorky on Romain Rolland, war and humanism
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/maxim-gorky-on-romain-rolland-war-and-humanism/
William Hazlitt: Systematic patrons of eternal war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/william-hazlitt-systematic-patrons-of-eternal-war/
Alexander Herzen: War and “international law”
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/alexander-herzen-war-and-international-law/
William Dean Howells: Spanish Prisoners of War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/william-dean-howells-spanish-prisoners-of-war/
Victor Hugo: The Face Of Cain, Hunters Of Men, Sublime Cutthroats
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/victor-hugo-the-face-of-cain-hunters-of-men-sublime-cutthroats
William James: The Moral Equivalent Of War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/william-james-the-moral-equivalent-of-war/
Samuel Johnson on war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/samuel-johnson-on-war/
Ellen Key: Overcoming the madness of a world at war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/ellen-key-overcoming-the-madness-of-a-world-at-war/
Karl Kraus: The Last Days of Mankind
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/karl-kraus-the-last-days-of-mankind
Richard Le Gallienne: The Illusion of War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/richard-le-gallienne-the-illusion-of-war/
Sinclair Lewis: It Can(‘t) Happen Here
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/sinclair-lewis-it-cant-happen-here/
Livy: On the political utility of starting unprovoked wars
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/livy-on-the-political-utility-of-starting-unprovoked-wars/
Jack London: War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/jack-london-war/
Lucan: Over all the world you are victorious and your soldiers die
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/lucan-over-all-the-world-you-are-victorious-and-your-soldiers-die/
Roger Martin du Gard: From Nobel Prize in Literature speech
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/roger-martin-du-gard-from-nobel-prize-in-literature-speech/
Edgar Lee Masters: The Philippine Conquest
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/edgar-lee-masters-the-philippine-conquest/
Herman Melville: Trophies of Peace
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/herman-melville-trophies-of-peace/
Nikolai Nekrasov: In War
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/nikolai-nekrasov-in-war/
Alfred Noyes: The Wine Press
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/alfred-noyes-the-wine-press/
Wilfred Owen: Arms and the Boy and Disabled
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/wilfred-owen-arms-and-the-boy-and-disabled/
Arthur Rimbaud: Evil
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/rimbaud-evil/
Romain Rolland: Above The Battle
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/romain-rolland-above-the-battle/
George Santayana on war and militarism
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/george-santayana-on-war-and-militarism/
Juvenilia: Percy Bysshe Shelley on war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/juveniliapercy-bysshe-shelley-on-war/
Robert Southey: The Battle of Blenheim
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/robert-southey-the-battle-of-blenheim/
Jonathan Swift on war
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/jonathan-swift-on-war/
Tolstoy: Two Wars and Carthago Delenda Est
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/tolstoy-two-wars-and-carthago-delenda-est/
Kurt Tucholsky: The White Spots
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/kurt-tucholsky-the-white-spots/
Paul Vaillant-Couturier: The Song of Craonne
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/paul-vaillant-couturier-the-song-of-craonne/
Edward Young: Draw the murd’ring sword to give mankind a single lord
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/edward-young-draw-the-murdring-sword-to-give-mankind-a-single-lord/
Arnold Zweig: Education Before Verdun
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/arnold-zweig-education-before-verdun/