Catch-22, Still Catching 52 Years Later
I’ve just finished listening to the Audible reading of Joseph Heller’s famous novel, Catch-22. The reader Jay O. Sanders is wonderful. The …
Tag Archives: Books:War
Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches
Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers …
A Farewell to Arms, or Not? WW I Through American Eyes
Pop the question: “WW I fiction?” and 10 out of 10 who have an answer at all will say “A …
Generals Die in Bed: A Novel from WW I
Generals Die in Bed (1930) is a slender and undeservedly little known novel from WW I, by Canadian-American, Charles Yale Harrison …
Storm of Steel: Another German’s View of the Trenches, WW I
World War I was the bloody birthing ground for war literature, both of the trenches and the years of recovery. …
Wooden Crosses: A Movie of Wartime France
Reading the Absolutist last week, a British novel of war in the trenches, WW I, I was reminded of …
The Absolutist: A Novel of War Time Refusal
John Boyne, born in Dublin in 1971, manages to summon the spirits of two very particular men, sent to fight …
The Crimean War: Orlando Figes
In 1853 the United States was 8 years away from a civil war. Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo only …
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
I’ve been reading — actually, listening to– Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War for a week, during commute times, …
Fear Up Harsh
Tony Lagouranis was a soldier. An American soldier. An American soldier who tortured Iraqis. He conducted mock executions, forced men …