On War with Gwynne Dyer

6/5/2017

On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …

Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies

6/3/2017

In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages, …

The Irish in WW I – a preview

5/30/2017

I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …

“Schlump,” a Novel of WW I

5/9/2017

The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the …

Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front

4/28/2017

Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs. …

Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

2/2/2017

It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of …

Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence

12/14/2016

Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …

The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba

11/30/2016

World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil …

Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert

7/19/2016

Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …

The Starched Blue Skies of Spain – a Remembrance by Josephine Herbst

7/2/2016

The Starched Blue Skies Of Spain by Josephine Herbst is a small, mostly overlooked gem of reportage/memoir from the Civil …

The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life

6/14/2016

Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write …

“Not So Quiet…” — A Woman Writes of War

6/7/2016

War writing is almost by definition writing by men about men. It also, almost universally, centers on the climactic moments, the …

All In One Boat

~ And Heading Through the Straits of Messina

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