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 …
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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 …
Democracy and the Demagogue
Jason Stanley, author of the much praised How Propaganda Works, takes a look at the current political season and how …
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 …
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Nothing like good history, thoroughly researched and well written, helps better to put in place pieces of the immense human puzzle …
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
A recent article in the NY Times Tuesday Science section caught my attention and brought to mind one of the …
The African Queen: WW I Adventureland
Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d …
Vera Brittain: Not only the Movie, the Book
Military historian, Simon Jones, says Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, upon which the new movie is based, is one …
Boots to the Sun — An Italian Memoir of the “Great War”
Two indispensable companions are always with me on late-life trips across the seven continents. Leading the way is my excited-to-be-there, take-everything-in life …
Naples Liberated: Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin”
It is hard to think of another work of fiction of such savage irony as Curzio Malaparte‘s La Pelle (1949) …
Salt of the Earth: Sabastião Salgado Looks At Worlds in Trouble and One of Healing
Sebastião Salgado’s photography is among the most stunning in the history of the camera. Many talented and fully engaged witnesses with cameras …