Making Memorial
Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a …
Tag Archives: Books:History
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
America: Digging out the Past
Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and …
The Rich Will Keep Getting Richer, Unless…
Several commentators take a look at, and are impressed, with the new English translation of Thomas Picketty’s French published book, …
Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500 …
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, …
WW I As Recorded by those Who Were There
The British National Archives has announced that in this 100th year anniversary of the beginning of WW I, (August), that …
Kill Anything that Moves: More Terrible Truth About War
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves:The Real American War in Vietnam, has been praised by virtually everyone who has read …
Bringing Mulligan Back Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Dale Maharidge is the author of two well regarded books of nonfiction. The second, And Their Children After Them, following …
The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
Nixon and Kissinger: The Blood Keeps Seeping
I’ve been reading Daniel Ellsberg’s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers to be reminded again of the …