War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about …
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William Faulkner and WW I: A Fable
Since I’ve been sparse in posting these last weeks, for various (all good) reasons, I thought I’d re-post this look …
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 …
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 …
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 …