“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I
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Tag Archives: Fiction:WW I
The Irish in WW I – a preview
I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …
Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …
“Not So Quiet…” — A Woman Writes of War
War writing is almost by definition writing by men about men. It also, almost universally, centers on the climactic moments, the …
Across The Black Waters — Indian-British Soldiers at the Western Front
That British, French and German soldiers fought and died in their millions on the Western Front in WW I is …
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 …
1914: Slender Novel, Big War
Although Jean Echenoz is both widely read and a winner of multiple literary prizes in France you’d have to …
The Great Swindle: Opportunities in France, 1919
Pierre Lemaitre has won a substantial following both in his native France and abroad for writing crime fiction. His Commandant Camille …
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
If you’ve never read anything about life in the trenches during World War One, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and …
The Canal Bridge — Irishmen in WW I
The First Casualty – A WW I Conscientious Objector as Sleuth
Ben Elton’s 2012 mystery, The First Casualty, is a fine combination of two popular literary genres: men at war and …
Parade’s End — Benedict Cumberbatch as England’s Last Tory
The 5 hour HBO/BBC mini-series, Parade’s End, (2012) with Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, is a miracle of lossless compression, …