Above the Battle is an anti-world war I treatise by Romain Rolland written in 1916. (Excerpt) A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. To each his part: to the armies the protection of the soil of their native land; to the thinkers t...