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War in Literature: United States
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Vietnam veteran John Swensson, Professor of English at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, provides a wealth of information on the Vietnam War on his website. Included are link packages to topics such as amnesty, Agent Orange, films, memorials, special forces, and statistics in addition to the class syllabus, information on the research process and citing sources, sample research papers, and topical book list and video collection. The college ... offers a study abroad program in Vietnam which is described.
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The most enduring poetry of the war was... written in Spanish. In 1937 the poet and playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, was murdered by fascists, an act of tragic brutality that soon achieved iconic status, as described by Antonio Machado:
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Thomas Hill received an M.A. in history from Oklahoma State University and is currently working toward an M.F.A. in writing at the University of Memphis where he ... teaches. He can be reached at thill70@yahoo.com.
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The dominant issue within the social range is the state's pressure upon all segments of society, which intensifies the burden of the war itself. At the front, this took the form of terror and coercion by the politotdely (political or ideology departments – trans.), and the zagradotryady [special battalions whose task was to shoot Red Army soldiers deserting from the front-line – trans.]). In the rear, terror took the form of ethnic deportations, "preventive arrests", arrests for "defeatist conversations", and punishment of former prisoners of war, soldiers who had lost contact with their brigades, or even people who lived on partly occupied territory.
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