Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano , by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

States of War

Volume 1, Number 1 | winter 2008

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Preamble

The Gulf of Time

By Lewis H. Lapham

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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View of Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo, approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia, 1996. Photograph by Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski.

Band of Brigands

By John Mueller

The criminality of modern warfare.

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Map

Fringe Benefits

Inventions, countries, and styles that came out of war.

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c. 1918 | Flanders

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Wilfred Owen exposes the old lie.More

2007 | Washington

Speaking Truth to Power

Jessica Lynch sets the record straight.More

1917 | Hindenburg Trench

In No Man’s Land

Siegfried Sassoon enters a zone of inhuman havoc.More

Charts & Graphs

Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea

A U.S. serviceman’s chances of death in battle.

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American novelist Tim O’Brien.

Photograph of John B. Hood

Lewis Lapham at his desk

English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon.

Statue depicting Roman orator and historian Tacitus.

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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