Posts Tagged with ‘Books:War’
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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…
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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
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Heinrich Boll: German Miniaturist of War
02 Jun 2018Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985) is not a name that non-German readers will associate with other 20th century German…
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The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb
17 May 2018Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed…
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War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
12 Dec 2017War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but…
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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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The War at Home 1918-1923
20 Sep 2017I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t…
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The Long March – William Styron
06 Sep 2017Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim…
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A History of Warfare – John Keegan
14 Aug 2017A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to…
