A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
I am knocked out! Listening to the Audible version which she, herself, reads. Highly recommend. The timbre of her voice as …
Tag Archives: Books:Memoir
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 …
A Jail Break Against the Draft
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …
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, …
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 Timid Marine — a WW II Memoir
Joseph Lanciotti was a fifteen year old, setting pins in the local bowling alley of Lodi, New Jersey on Sunday, …
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 …
“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …
The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …