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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman

6/9/2021

If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …

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Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy

3/27/2021

Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the  first novels to …

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The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone

1/8/2020

  In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …

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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge

12/19/2019

  One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead.  By the time The Case of Comrade …

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Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution

10/10/2019

  Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that, …

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The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma

9/20/2019

  Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people,  …

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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

5/1/2019

  Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …

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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944

4/24/2019

  Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war …

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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura

4/8/2019

  The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love, …

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Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937

1/11/2019

For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …

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Red Cavalry — Isaac Babel; Russia at War

12/5/2018

  In between wars are other wars. Men fight in them all, whatever is available. Between World War I and …

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War Resistance in Japan, WWII

11/23/2018

  Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder.  Those …

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