I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.