A Darkling Plain

Part I: 1. War is hell. War is all hell. Scholarly literature on the unspeakable: literature, methodology, and data; Part II. War and Humanity in World War II: 2. If something's going to get you, it'll get you. Frank, American solider in the South Pacific; 3. Prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. Love and luck. Laura, Holocaust survivor on Schindler's list; 4. Everything went downhill after that. Gunther, refugee and displaced person with an SS father; 5. In the middle of the hailstorm, one doesn't fear for one's own life. The red princess and the July 20 Plot to kill Hitler; 6. Belonging to something. Herb, Austrian Jewish refugee from the Third Reich; 7. Hard to adjust after all that. Grace, interned Japanese American teenager; Part III. Other Voices, Other Wars: From Indochina to Iraq: 8. Best forget about Vietnam. Christopher, Vietnam; 9. For my family. Tuan, South Vietnam; 10. Bad memory, bad feeling. Sara on the Khmer Rouge; 11. Someone loving me. Kimberly on the Khmer Rouge; 12. Collateral damage and the greater good. Doc and the Iraq War; 13. Easily the worst experience of my life. Sebastian on the Iraq War; Part IV. Civil Wars and Genocides, Dictators and Domestic Oppressors: 14. Grandfather had his head cut off. Rose and the Armenian genocide; 15. A resistance to keep you alive. Ngũgĩ on the Mau Mau, anti-colonialism, and homegrown dictators; 16. Stuck in the mud in the middle of a civil war. Fabiola on the Nicaraguan Civil War; 17. Too much was seen. Marie on the Lebanese Civil War; 18. Care about other people. Okello and Idi Amin's Uganda; 19. People suffered great loss. Reza and Afghanistan under the Soviets; 20. Religion mixed with politics creates bad things. Leyla and the Islamic Republic of Iran; Part V. Guarding One's Humanity during Wars and Genocide: 21. The fundamental things apply; Conclusion: the enormity of it all.