Posts Tagged with ‘Books:War’
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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura
08 Apr 2019The 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
11 Jan 2019For 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
05 Dec 2018In 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
23 Nov 2018Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder. Those…
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Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies
20 Nov 2018We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement…
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The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
15 Nov 2018The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later…
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The Silent Angel — Heinrich Boll
23 Oct 2018In his first novel, The Train Was on Time (1949), Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985), wrote of soldiers going…
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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
27 Sep 2018War
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
06 Aug 2018Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human…
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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
31 Jul 2018Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice…
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J.D.Salinger – War Troubled
26 Jun 2018Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came…