Sobre la guerra

"Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" (John Donne, 1624) 

"War is hell" (William Sherman, 1879)  

A la consideració de governants, polítics, ideòlegs, poderosos, militars i gent socialment influent, però també de tothom, perquè la guerra afecta a tots:

Llibres

Die Waffen nieder! (1889) - Bertha von Suttner 

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (1921 - 1923) - Jaroslav Hašek

Im Westen nichts Neues (1929) - Erich Maria Remarque  

Un hiver à Souchez, 1915-1916 (1930) - Jean Galtier-Boissière 

Les damnés de la guerre (1934) - Roger Monclin 

War is a racket (1935) - Smedley Butler 

Paths of glory (1935) - Humphrey Cobb 

Johnny goes his gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo 

Het Achterhuis (1947) - Anne Frank 

Nineteen eighty four (1949) - George Orwell 

On the beach (1957) - Nevil Shute 

Die Brücke (1958) - Gregor Dorfmeister 

The longest day (1959) - Cornelius Ryan 

La planète des singes (1963) - Pierre Boulle 

The last battle (1966) - Cornelius Ryan 

A bridge too far (1974) - Cornelius Ryan 

Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2000) - Gil Courtemanche 

J'ai serré la main du diable (2003) - Roméo Dallaire 

I cecchini del weekend: l'inchiesta sui safari umani in Sarajevo (2026) - Ezio Gavazzeni 

Pel·lícules

All quiet in the western front (1930) - Lewis Milestone 

Theirs is the glory (1946) - Brian Desmond Hurst 

Nuit et brouillard (1956) - Alain Resnais

Biruma no tategoto (1956) - Kon Ichikawa 

Paths of glory (1957) - Stanley Kubrick 

Die Brücke (1959) - Bernhard Wicki 

Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Alain Resnais 

On the beach (1959) - Stanley Kramer 

The longest day (1962) - Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Darryl Zanuck, Bernhard Wicki i Gerd Oswald

Fail safe (1964) - Sidney Lumet

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick 

Planet of the apes (1968) - Franklin Schaffner 

Nihonkai daikansen (1969) - Seiji Maruyama 

Patton (1970) - Franklin Schaffner 

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda 

Johnny goes his gun (1971) - Dalton Trumbo 

A bridge too far (1977) - Richard Attenborough 

Zulu dawn (1979) - Douglas Hickox 

Gallipoli (1981) - Peter Weir 

Das Boot (1981) - Wolfgang Petersen 

The year of living dangerously (1982) - Peter Weir 

Missing (1982) - Costa-Gavras 

The day after (1983) - Nicholas Meyer 

Wargames (1983) - John Badham 

The killing fields (1984) - Roland Joffé 

Dien Bien Phu (1992) - Pierre Schoendoerffer 

A bright shinning lie (1998) - Terry George 

100 days (2001) - Nick Hughes 

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Terry George 

Joyeux Noël (2005) - Christian Carion 

Shooting dogs (2005) - Michael Caton-Jones 

Sometimes in april (2005) - Raoul Peck

Paradise now (2005) - Hany Abu Assad 

Un dimanche à Kigali (2006) - Robert Favreau 

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Clint Eastwood 

Shake hands with the devil (2007) - Roger Spottiswoode 

Vals im Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman 

Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009) - Lu Chan 

Comandante (2023) - Edoardo De Angelis

I si es vol veure, sentir i pensar la realitat de com són les guerres, encara se'n podrien afegir moltes, com A walk in the sun (1945), The steel helmet (1951), The cruel sea (1953), The bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), Attack! (1956), Tunes of glory (1960), King and country (1964), The train (1964), The hill (1965), Hell in the Pacific (1968), The bridge at Remagen (1969), Cross of iron (1977), The big red one (1980), Hamburger hill (1987), Stalingrad (1993), The thin red line (1998), We were soldiers (2002),  el remake All quiet in the western front (2022), Warfare (2025).. No es pot dir que no estiguem avisats. 

En resum:  Mai més una guerra!