How do authors of war books/films hook and hold readers?

1. How do authors of war books/films hook and hold readers? Center the opening scene or sequences in your story around a question readers will want to know the answer to ("How to Write a Hook for a Story | eHow.com) The other seduction is the non-fiction author’s personal journey into the terror zone of war. The implication being that unless your own ass has been on the line in a fire-fight what right do you have to write about one? They use memories from when they were in the war and their own experiences (International Crime Authors Reality Check)

2. How do writers of war books persuade their readers • Picture your reader, select strong or loaded words and use active verbs. (Jensen) • “Recount or share a personal experience, procedural- show ho to do something or how something works, informational- to share information, and be persuasive by presenting an opinion or argument.” (Buss/ Karnowski)

3. What is the relationship between war books and the truth • They are often based on real events • "A great story about the critical battles of Saratoga and Bennington, and a terrific read.” (Jacobs) • enduring the same difficult conditions as his men, and personally walked every inch of the island to plan the positions of thousands of underground bunkers and tunnels. (Hardcover edition from back of Letters of Iwo Jima)

4. What truths are best communicated through the war books genre? • Numerous fine Civil War battle and campaign studies appeared in 1992, but the best of the lot is Cozzens' account of Chickamauga." -- International (Bibliography of Military History) • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. • Jimmy Carter

5. How are war books different from other genres

6. why do people read this genre? • One of the most instructive and moving books on war and its aftermath that we are likely to see, in part because it is instructive and moving in unexpected ways (New York Times) • A simple thesis emerges from all the detail worked into this touching group portrait, in a comment by John Bradley: "The heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come back." No reader will forget the lesson.(Publishers Weekly)

7. how do the authors of war books and films tell the story and be accurate. • They tell thestory and are accurate is because they get “unmediated accounts of men and women at war . You can get much closer to the story) (Andrew Lowney)

8. what are some examples of war films and novels • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane • The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell • Strange Meeting by Susan Hill • Dispatches by Michael Herr • Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally • The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer • The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque • The Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon • Flags of our Fathers • Letters From Iwo Jima

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