A History of Warfare – John Keegan
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
Category Archives: War
Baboons and You: A Natural History of Peace
Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a …
Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …
1898 – Spain’s Last Men in the Philippines,
I happened across Salvador Calvo‘s, 2017 movie 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines / 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas …
Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff
Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the …
“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I
Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them. Just go read it, that’s all! …
WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and …
On War with Gwynne Dyer
On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …
More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan
It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as …
The Irish in WW I – a preview
I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …
“Schlump,” a Novel of WW I
The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the …