Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …
Category Archives: War
Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet
World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In …
Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out …
The Road – Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …
Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do …
War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about …
Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to …
Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world …
The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade …