Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Out of the Marvellous, or, Scholarship and the Magic Arts -- 1 The Artist and the Terrorist, or, The Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group -- 2 The Face, or, Senseless Kindness: War Photography and the Ethics of Responsibility -- 3 Provenance, or, Authenticity: The Guitar Player and the Arc of a Life -- 4 Broomstick Horrors, or, The Fog-Walker in the Wood: Keeping up Appearances in the Great War -- 5 The Strategy of Still Life, or, Art and Current Affairs: Georges Braque and the Occupation -- 6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War -- 7 The Secret Life, or, The Soldier's Tale: Diaries and Diary-Keeping in War -- 8 Like a Dog, or, Animal House on the Night Shift: Kafka and Abu Ghraib -- 9 It's All Fucked Up, or, The Non-Fiction Horror Movie: The Cinema and the War on Terror -- 10 Waiting for the Barbarians, or, The Hospitality of War: Civilisation and Barbarism in the War on Terror -- Index.