In writing my final project paper on the rhetoric of loss in Lewis' writings, I did alot of re-reading Surprised by Joy..especially the passages he wrote about his time in the army. His prose doesn't display the broken and bitter vibe that we modern readers are so used to in accounts of war (perhaps because of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars...). I don't believe it was a steely factual itinerary about his time in the war either, put did seem surprisingly stoic for Lewis. Perhaps this was part of the traditional "stiff upper lip" attitude taken by the British in times of national trial.
The Second Workld War, however, plays a large role in many of his other works....seen as both the result of a great evil in The Screwtape Letters, and the reason for the childrens flight to the country in the Chronicles of Narnia...What do you think Lewis true thoughts on war were?