[Machine Translation] I curse war" In Kyusaku Yumeno s *The Battlefield*, a doctor makes this declaration as he recounts his hellish experiences. How did this mystery writer, who lived through that era, portray the sorrow, resentment, and distortion born of war? Now, more than 80 years after the war, when opportunities to hear from those who lived through it have become scarce, we present eight masterful works that we hope you will read along with an essay titled *We Don t Need Armaments Anymore* by Ango Sakaguchi, which quotes that very line in its title.