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Acknowledgments I owe a special thanks to David Mikics, who encouraged this project from its inception, read every chapter multiple times, and offered invaluablefeedback .IamalsogratefultoPeterPotterforchampioningtheideafor this book and providing kind and detailed guidance every step of the way. I would like to thank Wayne Lesser and Tom Palaima for all these years of friendship, ideas, collaboration, and support. My thanks to Sue Collins for her perpetual encouragement, and to Karen Fang, Elizabeth Klett, and Kat McClellan for sharing coffee, research goals, frustrations, and successes . Iain Morrisson’s, Dan Price’s, and Ralph Rodriguez’s comments on chapter 1 in its earlier incarnation as an article were very helpful. Thanks to Tony Hilfer, who would have loved this adventure. And especially thanks to Barbara and Gene Peebles for all their love, and to Richard Power, my reader first and last. An earlier version of Chapter 1 was published as an article in a special issue of PMLA on “War” in October 2009. I am grateful to the Modern viii Acknowledgments Language Association of America for permission to reprint overlapping material. I also thank Alice James Books (www.alicejamesbooks.org) for permission to reprint excerpts from Brian Turner’s book, Here, Bullet (Copyright © 2005 by Brian Turner). ...

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