Images that have become icons of our time and tell, one after another, the most recent wars, from Spain in 1936 to Lebanon in 2006: seventy years of the iconography of pain. The book presents 84 great pictures by as many famous photographers, each an invitation to meditate on the meaning of our visual and social tradition, and on the meaning and madness of a senseless and painful practice such as war. It accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Museo dell’Ara Pacis in Rome in 2011-2012.