A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, a radical rethinking of the nature of war and gender and the illuminating interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. Griffin uses diaries, art, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the unexpectedly broad range of causes and effects of war. |
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