Instructions: 

Listen to the lecture, read the theory and the texts to be ready to answer the questions in the class.

Points to remember:

 Major war writers: Heller (Catch-22), Mailer (The Naked and the Dead), Uris Mila 15.  

 Major themes: Psychological effects of war (Heller, Vonnegut), social criticism, relationship between man and machine (Vonnegut), American history (Doctorow).