Anatomy of Fascism

3/15/2017

The bibliographic essay at the end of Robert O Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism is some 27 pages long. At about …

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging — by Sebastian Junger

3/14/2017

Although the word tribe has long been used in a more-or-less neutral way for a certain type of social organization, tribalism has lately …

Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

2/2/2017

It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of …

Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence

12/14/2016

Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …

Johnny The Partisan — Fighting in the Hills of Asti and Alba, Italy

11/17/2016

The French resistance to the Nazis in WW II was much celebrated after the war. Whatever their actual resistance and …

The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars

7/8/2016

Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker” …

The Starched Blue Skies of Spain – a Remembrance by Josephine Herbst

7/2/2016

The Starched Blue Skies Of Spain by Josephine Herbst is a small, mostly overlooked gem of reportage/memoir from the Civil …

The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life

6/14/2016

Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write …

“Not So Quiet…” — A Woman Writes of War

6/7/2016

War writing is almost by definition writing by men about men. It also, almost universally, centers on the climactic moments, the …

“Spain In Our Hearts” by Adam Hochschild

5/28/2016

The Spanish Civil war, from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, cost some half a million Spanish lives; another half …

Not So Quiet On the Western Front, A Woman Looks at WW I

5/20/2016

Helen Zenna Smith, who wrote one of the most powerful witnesses to war I’ve ever read, was the pseudonym of …

“The Human Body” by Paolo Giordano, Italian Soldiers in Afghanistan

5/11/2016

Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body comes with encomiums such as ” a stunning exploration of war,” “a great novel of …

All In One Boat

~ And Heading Through the Straits of Messina

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Anatomy of Fascism

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