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 …
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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 …
Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that, …
The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …
One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura
The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love, …
A Small Circus – Hans Fallada; Small town life in 1929 Germany
One of the most memorable and powerful novels I have read in recent years is Hans Fallada‘s Every Man …
Patagonia — Not Just a Clothing Brand
Patagonia Before there was Chile, before there was Argentina, there was Patagonia. Before there was a Patagonia, when in 1520 …
Red Cavalry — Isaac Babel; Russia at War
In between wars are other wars. Men fight in them all, whatever is available. Between World War I and …
War Resistance in Japan, WWII
Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder. Those …
The Silent Angel — Heinrich Boll
In his first novel, The Train Was on Time (1949), Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985), wrote of soldiers going …
Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
War
Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental …