Shaw, Bernard,  1856-1950 <br/><br/>
Arms and the Man 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_and_the_Man  Release date is 2003-01-01 
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<br/><br/> "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw is a comedy first produced in 1894. Set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the play follows Raina, an idealistic young Bulgarian woman engaged to a battlefield hero, whose romantic notions are challenged when a pragmatic Swiss mercenary takes refuge in her bedroom. Shaw humorously exposes the futility of war and the hypocrisies of human nature as characters grapple with the gap between romantic ideals and reality, leading to unexpected revelations and shifting allegiances. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>War -- Drama Love -- Drama Man-woman relationships -- Drama Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885 -- Drama Italians -- Bulgaria -- Drama Soldiers -- Bulgaria -- Drama Bulgaria -- Drama 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR