Chico — War in Croatia, and the World
Though war movies and novels are overwhelmingly about large nation-state wars occasionally one breaks through about the smaller scale national …
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Blue Valentine — Don’t Open this
I got off my regular movie beat of war, its causes, outcomes and human behavior this past weekend and landed …
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Great Wave of Progress
Just finished listening to a very able Audible reading of The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s paean to Theodore Roosevelt, …
Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures
Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them: Israeli soldier, …
Ethics for Wars to Come
Samuel G Freedman in his always interesting once-a-week column On Region in the New York Times, features Robert H Latiff, …
Post War Trauma — and Love
Terry Gross interviewed a quite incredible couple today on her Fresh Air show. Kayla Williams and Brian McGough met in …
The Things They Carried – Writing About War
The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on. Tens of thousands of veterans …