Introduced by George MacBeth
This week's programme considers the theme of War and The Writer in three countries: the United States. Great Britain, and France Jim Mohan comments on the development of the group hero in American novels of the Second World War
John Gross considers the British myth of the Blitz and how its fictional treatment has altered since 1940
Olivier Todd discusses the French novelist's changing image of the army since the outbreak of the war in Algeria