Back Issues
Selected back issues of WLA may be ordered using the order form.
As we process full-text online versions, we will make them available from this page. In addition to the current edition, which is available in pdf format, the Special Vietnam Edition is also available in HTML.
Other issues available online begin with Vol 11, No.2 Fall/Winter 1999.
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1989
Critical Essay
Correspondent Visions of Vietnam by Mark A. Heberle
The Search for Closure: Vietnam War Literature and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Charles J. Gaspar
War and Festivity in Gravity’s Rainbow by Christopher Ames
Thomas Mann’s Wartime Reflections by James Seaton
Hastings and Roland: The Triumph of the Mounted Knight by Michael C.C. Adams
Grain and Glory: Eating Practices in Homer’s Iliad by Michele M. Sordi
Volume 1, Number 2, 1989-90
Critical Essay
The Black Soldier in Vietnam War Literature and Film by Perry D. Luckett
Joseph Heller’s “ ‘Catch-22’ Revisited” by David M. Craig
Warrior-Bishops in La Chanson de Roland and Poema de mio by Earl R. Anderson
Vietnam War Literature: a guide to resources at Colorado State University by John Newman and Julie Wessling
Poetry
Barcelona by Alfred Kern
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1990
Critical Essay
Sacrifice and Dehumanization in Plievier’s Stalingrad by Joan F. Adkins
Historical Interpretation or Ambush Journalism? CBS vs Westmoreland in The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception (1982) by Peter C. Rollins
Randall Jarrell’s Poetry of Aerial Warfare by Alex A. Vardamis
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1990
Critical Essay
Oliver Stone’s Film Adaptation of Born on the Fourth of July: Redefining Masculine Heroism by Don Kunz
The Germans are Coming! British Fiction of a German Invasion 1871-1913 by Joseph S. Meisel
Artwork
The Artist and the Holocaust by Roger Preston
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1991
Critical Essay
A Walk Through History: Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato by James Griffith
Signifying the Wasteland: Selling the “Falklands War” by Kevin D. Foster
Desire Satisfied: War and Love in The Heat of the Day and Moon Tiger by Thomas Dukes
Fiction
Watershed by Robert Morgan
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1991
Personal Essay
Memoirs of Six Months by E.P. Motley
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1992
Critical Essay
The Memoirs of Pierre Pouchot: A Soldier’s View of a Doomed Campaign by Michael Cardy
Severed Ears: An Image of the Vietnam War by Constance A. Brown
The Narrative Technique Used by Goethe to Portray War in the “Campaign in France” by Steven Kaplan
Poetry
Cabrini’s Run—‘71 by R.S. Carlson
Volume 4, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1992
Critical Essay
The Foe in Sight: Discovering the Enemy in Donne’s Elegie XIX by Cheryl A. Shell
Sisters in Arms by Donna Connolly
Commentary
“Guernica” by Crystal M. Jonas
Artwork
Lines and Shadows by Anne Wells Ladow
Poetry
from Between Bombardments by Karen Alkalay-Gut
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1993
Critical Essay
John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro by Greg Garrett
Literary Resources of the Vietnam War by John S. Baky
Interview
“I’ll Have to go Down to Hell First”: A Saipanese WWII Veteran Recalls the War by Elizabeth Drumwright
Poetry
Ghazals by G. S. Sharat Chandra
To Send Forth by Joseph T. Cox
Commentary
Collier’s Magazine: Preview Of The War We Do Not Want by John Morano
Avoiding Nostalgia: James Michener’s The Bridge at Andau by Anthony Arthur
Volume 5, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1993
Critical Essay
“Glamorous Melancholy”: R. C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End by Steven Trout
An I for an eye: Edmund Blunden’s War by Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.
Whitsun and Beyond: Continuing the Great War by Elizabeth A. Muenger
Poetry
Not Always Located in Nicaragua by Will Hochman
Commentary
Reflections on the Great War by Tom F. Baldy
Writing about Flying: A Pilot’s View by John Clark Pratt
Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1994
Critical Essay
The Atomic Test Poems of Paul Zimmer by John Gery
Military Machines and Nuclear Accident: Burdick and Wheeler’s Fail-Safe by David Seed
Artistic Truth, Historical Truth: The “Fraction” Film and the Falklands War by Paul MacKenzie
Commentary
The Life of a Bomber Co-Pilot by David M. Mazurowski
Love in the Trenches: Images of Woman in Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead by Sheryl A. Mylan
Volume 6, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1994
Critical Essay
From Avignon to Catch-22 by David M. Craig
Interview
Responsibly Inventing History: An Interview with Tim O’Brien by Brian C. McNerney
Poetry
Mostly Nothing Happens by W.D. Ehrhart
All She Can Eat by Andrew Benson
Commentary
Missing Pieces: Versions and Visions of Vietnam POW/MIA in American Culture by Philip K. Jason
Representations of the Resistance in World War II France by Rosemary P-Z Clark
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1995
Critical Essay
Ambrose Bierce on the Construction of Military History by Michael W. Schaefer
The Wars Within the War in La Guerre, Yes Sir! by Richard W. Lemp
The Eyewitness Narrator in Hemingway’s Collier’s Dispatches and “Black Ass at the Cross Roads” by James H. Meredith
Fiction
Mothers by Jerome Mandel
Reality by Julio Escoto (translated by Clark M. Zlotchew)
Poetry
Miles Standish Forest, Plymouth, Mass, 1934 by Joseph T. Cox
Commentary
Hang the Enola Gay by Alfred Kern
Volume 7, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1995
Personal Essay
A Boatman’s Story by Robert MacGowan
Shadow Warrior by Donald Clay
Poetry
Serpent Knowledge by Robert Pinsky
Alms for the Burned by David A. Willson
A Century by Daniel Tobin
Shaman by Joseph T. Cox
Commentary
McNamara’s Makeshift Amends by Donald Anderson
Achilles in Vietnam by Brian Hanley
Fiction
Falling in Love by Andre Dubus
from Vows and Infidelities by Alfred Kern
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1996
Critical Essay
Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and World War I by Milton A. Cohen
George Gascoigne and The Spoyle of Antwerpe (1576) by William E. Sheidley
Thomas Wolfe and the Civil War by Thomas Bonner, Jr.
Writing War: John Dos Passos’ One Man’s Initiation by Stephen C. Enniss
Poetry
Before Wars by Wendy Bishop
Fiction
LOCKE-HAVEN AT LARGE by Charles Clerc
Volume 8, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1996
Special Feature
Selected Work by W.D. Ehrhart: The Summer I Learned to Dance (personal essay), I Drink my Coffee Black (fiction), The Sergeant (poetry), A Bibliography
Critical Essay
Against a Coming Extinction: W.D. Ehrhart and the Envolving Canon of Vietnam Veteran’s Poetry by Lorrie Smith
Tim O’Brien’s Re-imagination of Reality: An Exercise in Metafiction by John Clark Pratt
Commentary
Darkness Carried: W.D. Ehrhart’s Memoirs by Donald Anderson
“Everyday I’m always on patrol”: Bill Ehrhart’s Journey Home by Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.
Poetry
Tryolean Vacation by Karen Alkalay-Gut
Langour by H. Palmer Hall
Hospital Visit by H. Palmer Hall
The Vietnam Vet Plays Gyruss by Vince Gotera
Gulf War Haiku by Vince Gotera
The Bomb by Ed Meek
Duty by Ed Meek
For Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Maggie Jaffe
Fiction
Echoes by Don Kunz
from The Second Tour by Terry P. Rizzuti
Point Man by Allen Learst
Interview
Reading, Writing, and Going to War: An interview with Clyde Edgerton by Christopher D. Campbell
A Conversation with W.D. Ehrhart by Donald Anderson and Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.
Volume 9, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1997
Guest Editor, James H. Meredith
Senior Guest Copy Editor, Kathi A. Vosevich
Critical Essay
Flying the Old Marauder Over Nazi Germany by Jim Colvert
Patriotism and Treason in A Farewell to Arms by George Monteiro
Nick Adams and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Ronald Smith
The Progress of Patriotism and Biography: The Battle of Trafalgar in Southey’s The Life of Nelson by H. George Hahn
Fact, Fable, and the Fantastic: Approaches to the Novel of War in the Francophone Literature of Algeria by Sara Poole
“Whatever Else, I’d Loved It There Too”: Persuasive Strategy in Michael Herr’s Dispatches by Douglas Sun
The Bernard Fall Archives at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA by Leslie Holland
Healing the Soldier in White: Ceremony as War Novel by John Getz
Blackness and the Unmanning of America in Dave Rabe’s Streamers by Owen Brady
Fiction
Classics Revisited: Ambrose Bierce’s “Chickamauga” with Introduction by James Hughes Meredith
Poetry
Conversion by Paul Elisha
Killing Time in Bosnia by Paul Elisha
Paradox by Paul Elisha
Remembering Leyte: “D” Day Quintennial-June 6, 1995 by Paul Elisha
not about war by Tony Moffeit
Degenerated Art Show 1937 by Maggie Jaffe