Chapter 1 Introduction: Tales of War and Wonder—Reflecting on War, Myths, and Fairy Tales and the Breadcrumb Trails Between

Chapter 2 And They Lived Happily Ever After? The Fable as Search for Meaning in Holocaust Cinema

Chapter 3 “The Boy with the Bread”: Consuming Hansel and Gretel in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 4 Abelardo Díaz Alfaro’s Tales: The Tragicomedy of the Dawn of US Intervention in Puerto Rico

Chapter 6 Flying Home: Aestheticizing and Americanizing Experiences of Exile and Migration in the Second World War as Fairy Tales of Return and Restoration

Chapter 7 Child Soldiers in Medieval(esque) Cinema

Chapter 8 “A Trap of Our Own Making”: Mark Twain and the Mechanized Warfare of King Arthur’s Court

Chapter 9 “Life Was a State in Which a War Was On”: A.S. Byatt’s Portrayal of War and Norse Mythology in Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Chapter 10 War and the Ruby Tree. The Motif of the Unborn Generations in Jewish Women’s Story-Telling