War

Release date : March 1983
Numbers : 10
Time : 40 min
Hits : Sunday bloody Sunday, New year's day, Two hearts beat as one
Highest position :

US	: 12
UK	: 1
NL	: 3

LP \ Island ILPS 9733 \ UK
LP \ Island PILPS 9733 \ UK \ picture disc
LP \ Island ILPS 9733 \ Sweden
LP \ Island 25S-156 \ Japan
LP \ Island 90092-4 \ US
LP \ CBS 25247 \ Ireland
CD \ Island CID 112 \ UK
CD \ Island 90092-2 \ US
CD \ Island 262 051/CID 112/90067-2 \ Germany
CASS \ Island 90092-1 \ US
CASS \ Island CIT 9733 \ UK

This was U2's thirt album, and their first no. album in the UK.
On the cover of the album is the same boy displayed as on the album Boy but now the boy has gown up and doesn't look native anymore.
War was criticised for being bombastic and blatantly rockist, but there is also a sense of experimentation on the album, like Two hearts beat as one (Which is essentially a dance track), the haunting Drowning Man (featuring Steve Wickham on violin), Surrender (Which include a solo trumpeter and Kid Creole's female backing vocalists, the coconuts) and the gentle "40" which closes the album with the same question as Sunday Bloody Sunday opens it.

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