WW I: Siegfried Sassoon As His Eyes Open
Siegfried Sassoon, despite his Germanic name, his wealthy family and Jewish heritage, became one of England’s most famous soldier-poets of …
Tag Archives: Books:War
WW I: Warning the World about the War
With very few exceptions, all the books we associate with World War I — fiction, memoir, poetry– were written after …
WW I: Austrians and Russians
In most determinations of the responsibility for the outbreak of WW I, Austria-Hungary’s invasion of Serbia comes a close second …
The Guns of August — 100 Years Ago
It is a mark of Barbara Tuchman’s power as a writer that her ground breaking narrative history of the first month …
20 Million, Off to War
Making Memorial
Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a …
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
I just ordered my copy…. From the Iliad to John Balaban (a friend), from the Vietnam war. [None that I …
WW I: On the Eastern Front in The Forest of the Hanged
World War I as it is written of and imagined in European and American minds is almost entirely of what …
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500 …
The Things They Carried – Writing About War
The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on. Tens of thousands of veterans …