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Tag Archives: WW II
The Pope and Mussolini
Reading David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini:The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe will be a …
“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …
The Timid Marine — a WW II Memoir
Joseph Lanciotti was a fifteen year old, setting pins in the local bowling alley of Lodi, New Jersey on Sunday, …
Bringing Mulligan Back Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Dale Maharidge is the author of two well regarded books of nonfiction. The second, And Their Children After Them, following …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
August 9, 68 Years Later
More at BBC and The Guardian
Stop The War (The Cats Are Killing Themselves)
Michael Herr mentions this old classic in the opening pages of his Vietnam war memoir/reportage, Dispatches. Stop The War (The …
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 …
To End All Wars: A Movie: A Moral Claim: Mercy Unimaginable
To End All Wars, 2001, by David L Cunningham is a film I might normally recommend for all the typical filmic reasons: …
Citizens of London: A History of War and Romance
Lynn Olson, author of the very interesting Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest …
The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees, …