The African Queen: WW I Adventureland
Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d …
Monthly Archives: July 2015
The Crimson Field: Nursing at the Western Front
Happy to recommend a PBS/BBC mini-series that hasn’t got much attention: The Crimson Field Set in an imaginary field hospital …
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain’s Memoir of WW I
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, recently brought to view by the movie of the same name, unaccountably escaped my decades long reading …
Miracolo a Milano — Neo Realism in Italy Goes Magical
Several weeks ago at the wonderful Italian language school, Romanica, in Modena, Italy one of the after class treats was a …
Vera Brittain: Not only the Movie, the Book
Military historian, Simon Jones, says Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, upon which the new movie is based, is one …
Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival …