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The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus's
and Larry Heinemann's
. It marks the turning point in Homer's
, Virgil's
, the
, Stephen Crane's
and Tim O'Brien's
. It is the subject of transformative disclosure in Jaan Kross's
, Ron Kovic's
, O'Brien's
and A.B. Yehoshua's
. In some stories, events propel the characters into a friendly-fire catastrophe, as in Thomas Taylor's
and Oliver Stone's 1986 film
. This study examines friendly fire in a broad range of literary contexts.