Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War
From my daily reading of the news coming from Washington D.C. and around the world I had thought it would …
Tag Archives: Books
Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a …
Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be …
How Wars Begin
Among his many popular, controversial and and voluminous texts on European history, British historian A. J. P. Taylor produced one …
Fear: A Memoir from The French Trenches, WW I
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier, 1930 is such a powerful indictment of war that in …
WW I: The Call of the Soil – Blood and Glory from France
Many of the novels written about World War I, by those who fought in it, didn’t appear until a decade …
WW I: Siegfried Sassoon As His Eyes Open
Siegfried Sassoon, despite his Germanic name, his wealthy family and Jewish heritage, became one of England’s most famous soldier-poets of …
WW I: Warning the World about the War
With very few exceptions, all the books we associate with World War I — fiction, memoir, poetry– were written after …
WW I: Austrians and Russians
In most determinations of the responsibility for the outbreak of WW I, Austria-Hungary’s invasion of Serbia comes a close second …
The Guns of August — 100 Years Ago
It is a mark of Barbara Tuchman’s power as a writer that her ground breaking narrative history of the first month …
Beware of Pity – Says Forgotten Austrian Novelist
“Beware of Pity.” Who would think to proffer such advice, in a novel no less, repeatedly and in great detail? …
War Poetry Begins to Change
For most of human history, poems and songs about battle, combat and war were in praise of valor, courage, mighty …