Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Memoir’
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
14 Nov 2017Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years…
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Croatia — The Sorrows of Separation
10 Oct 2017The news from Spain and Catalonia this week has made my blood run cold. Plebiscites, exuberance, declarations of independence. The…
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Johnny The Partisan — Fighting in the Hills of Asti and Alba, Italy
17 Nov 2016The French resistance to the Nazis in WW II was much celebrated after the war. Whatever their actual resistance and…
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
29 Aug 2016It’s hard to know what words to use to praise a book like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. It’s not a…
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The Starched Blue Skies of Spain – a Remembrance by Josephine Herbst
02 Jul 2016The Starched Blue Skies Of Spain by Josephine Herbst is a small, mostly overlooked gem of reportage/memoir from the Civil…
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Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain’s Memoir of WW I
17 Jul 2015Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, recently brought to view by the movie of the same name, unaccountably escaped my decades long reading…
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Vera Brittain: Not only the Movie, the Book
06 Jul 2015Military historian, Simon Jones, says Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, upon which the new movie is based, is one…
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Boots to the Sun — An Italian Memoir of the “Great War”
25 Jun 2015Two 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…
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Fear: A Memoir from The French Trenches, WW I
22 Oct 2014Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier, 1930 is such a powerful indictment of war that in…
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WW I: Siegfried Sassoon As His Eyes Open
29 Sep 2014Siegfried Sassoon, despite his Germanic name, his wealthy family and Jewish heritage, became one of England’s most famous soldier-poets of…
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WW I: Austrians and Russians
09 Sep 2014In most determinations of the responsibility for the outbreak of WW I, Austria-Hungary’s invasion of Serbia comes a close second…
