Table of Contents

Thank God for the atom bomb -- An exchange of views -- Postscript (1987) on Japanese skulls -- Writing in wartime -- George Orwell -- "A power of facing unpleasant facts" -- Killing, in verse and prose -- A well-regulated militia -- Travel, tourism, and "international understanding" -- On the persistence of pastoral -- Taking it all off in the Balkans -- The fate of chivalry, and the assault upon mother -- Modernism, adversary culture, and Edmund Blunden -- Indy.