Arms and the self : war, the military, and autobiographical writing / edited by Alex Vernon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.

Introduction: No Genre's Land: The Problem of Genre in War Memoirs and Military Autobiographies / Alex Vernon -- Xenophon's Anabasis and the Origins of Western Military Autobiography / John W. I. Lee -- Style Wars: The Problems of Writing Military Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- T. E. Lawrence: Writing the Military Life from Homer to High Modernism / Terry Reilly -- The Female Subject and the First World War: The Case of Vera M. Brittain, vad London/268, brcs / Andrea Peterson -- Women's Confinement as Women's Liberation: World War II Civilian Internees in South Pacific Camps / Lynn Z. Bloom --Myths of Unity: Remembering the Second World War through Letters and Their Editing / Margaretta Jolly -- War Elegy / Pat C. Hoy II -- The "Atrocious Privilege": Bearing Witness to War and Atrocity in O'Brien, Levi, and Remarque / Chris Daley -- On the Battlefield and Home Front: American Women Writing Their Lives on the Vietnam War / Bettina Hofmann -- The African American Autobiography of the Vietnam War / Jeffrey Loeb -- The Life Writing of a Military Child / Jennifer Sinor -- Writing against the Vietnam War in Two Gulf War Memoirs: Anthony Swofford's Jarhead and Joel Turnipseed's Baghdad Express / Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton.