Three Soldiers — A WW I Novel of John Dos Passos
It’s hard, reading today, to get a grip on the impact which John Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers had on the …
Tag Archives: Books:War
Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence
If there were an “X” Prize for solving the problem of human violence, Russell Jacoby‘s Bloodlust: On the Roots of …
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 …
Nick Turse with POW Phil Butler in Berkeley
Review of Kill Anything That Moves, here.
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, …
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 …
Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
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 …
Why Do Underdogs Fight? Malcolm Gladwell Wonders…
Malcolm Gladwell, a hunter-gatherer of human behavior, and about as well known a writer as one could be, appeared at …
The Enormous Room — ee cummings
The Enormous Room by ee cumings, known and loved far and wide for his playful erotic, anarchic, love-full, meaning-full poems, …
“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. …
The Good Soldier Švejk — Anarchic Humor Against War
Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk, ‘a certified idiot,’ tickles us into an anti-war, anti-militarism, anti-bureaucracy mood the more we read. Unlike …