Fiction.

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Yet once again and extract, a list, as found in: "The Reader's Companion to Military History".

"The Ten Best Works of Historical Fiction About War"

* "Iliad".  [Homer]

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms.  [Lo Kuan-Chung]

* Henry V.  [Shakespeare]

* Simplicissimus. [Grimmelshausen]

* The History of Henry Esmond, Esquire.  [Thackery]

* "War and Peace".  [Tolstoy]

* "The Red Badge of Courage".  [Crane]

* Good Soldier Schweik.  [Hasek]

* "A Farewell to Arms".  [Hemingway]

* "The Cruel Sea".  [Montserrat]

It is often thought [and I also thought this to be true] that Crane actually was a combatant during the American Civil War. He was writing about his actual experience as a soldier but this is not so:  "'The Red Badge of Courage' has often misled readers into thinking that Crane . . . was himself a veteran. While trying to explain his ability to write about battle realistically, Crane stated: 'Of course, I have never been in a battle, but I believe that I got my sense of the rage of conflict on the football field, or else fighting is a hereditary instinct, and I wrote intuitively; for the Cranes were a family of fighters in the old days'".

HOMER IT IS ALLEGED WROTE THE ILIAD ABOUT FOUR-HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE ACTUAL EVENTS AS RECOUNTED IN THE EPIC.

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