'… an impressive academic feat … the breadth and scope of the book itself seem appropriate, given the immensity of the event itself as well as the wide array of literary responses to it and the overall lack of academic studies focused on the literature of the Second World War … It is a book and study without which any study of the literatures of the twentieth century and more precisely of the history and literatures of war would be woefully incomplete.' Ron Ben-Tovim, Poetics Today