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 …
Category Archives: War
A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones
A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector …
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 …
Zinky Boys: Russian Dead in Foreign Lands
Zinky Boys, Svetlana Alexievich‘s third book, and the third about war, reveals in it’s flip, bitter title, the pervading feeling …
WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though …
War in Movies: Small, Tense, and In Your Face
The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has made a special effort to find and present Spanish language films this year, …
Places Without Names — A Poem by Philip Booth
“Places Without Names” by Philip Booth in After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War editors Jay Meek and …
Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia) …
Refugees Today and Yesterday
This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just …
Rome, Open City, 1945
The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the …
No One Leaves Home, by Warsan Shire
Unbelievable poem by Warsan Shire. no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run …
General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian …