An Honorable Exit — France in Vietnam
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Tag Archives: War
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …
Quick Recommendations
A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six …
Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
The Road – Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …
The Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte
It is a rare event for a woman to write of war. Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been …
Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do …
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 …
Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …
Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world …
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade …
The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma
Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people, …