Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years …
Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years …
The news from Spain and Catalonia this week has made my blood run cold. Plebiscites, exuberance, declarations of independence. The …
I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t …
Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them. Just go read it, that’s all! …
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 is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …
I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …
The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the …
Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our …