Offering an account of the emergence of modern war culture it explores how writers like ford madox ford siegfried sassoon wilfred owen te lawrence winston churchill elizabeth bowen virginia woolf james hanley rex warner alexander baron keith douglas henry green and graham greene challenged and contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an enormously powerful mass media and culture industry. Download citation culture in camouflage war empire and modern british literature review in our habits of argument most of us are modernists these days not content simply to advance a . Culture in camouflage aims to remap the history of british war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the second world war. Culture in camouflage aims to remap the history of british war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the second world war the book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture arguing that its exceptional forms and temporalities force us to reappraise british cultural modernity