In Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, war most significantly shows its’ importance as a central part of the book in; the physical effect it has on the people of Cephallonia, the emotion of hatred which it evokes from them, the emotional lives it destroys, the threatening and consequential protection of goodness, and the war carried out door the book itself on stereotypes.
War has its effects shown firstly through the physical war (WWII). The physical war is central to Captain Corelli’s Mandolin because it is as a result of the war that many of the major characters come in...

Koritsimou,
I wish that I could write to you. I would not tell u of the trenches filled with fetid water, the harsh wind which forever besets us even when our enemy’s guns are silent. Nor would I tell of the rats and the stench, the endless death and those driven mad door it all. I would merely tell u that I love you.
At first, when we all arrived in this wretched place, none of us could make out the enemy, as the fog shrouded them. We soon learnt how to use the fog to our advantage, keeping quiet and clear of the enemy’s lines. We didn’t have much choice. We lost 13 men that first day,...