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The Things They Carried – Writing About War

2/4/2014

The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on.  Tens of thousands of veterans …

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Three Soldiers — A WW I Novel of John Dos Passos

1/23/2014

It’s hard, reading today, to get a grip on the  impact which John Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers had on the …

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home

1/2/2014

Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and …

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Company K — Americans in France, WW I

11/9/2013

William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …

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No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong

4/11/2013

I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming …

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The Good Soldier Švejk — Anarchic Humor Against War

1/28/2013

Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk,  ‘a certified idiot,’ tickles us into an anti-war, anti-militarism, anti-bureaucracy mood the more we read. Unlike …

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Catch-22, Still Catching 52 Years Later

1/9/2013

I’ve just finished listening to the Audible reading of Joseph Heller’s famous novel, Catch-22.  The reader Jay O. Sanders is wonderful.  The …

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Paradise of the Blind, a Novel from Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong

1/7/2013

Paradise of the Blind (1988) is Duong Thu Huong’s second serious novel, following a series of popular short stories, a novel …

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The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Vietnam

12/11/2012

Bao Ninh’s convention shattering novel of war, The Sorrow of War, (1991/1994) opens at war’s end.  Kien is in the …

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Girl By the Road at Night: Misery Writ Small

12/1/2012

Girl By the Road at Night (2010) by David Rabe, a highly praised playwright and author of several other novels, …

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Novel Without A Name: of Vietnam, A Man, A Country and A War

11/30/2012

Beginning to prepare for a February trip to South East Asia I do what I always do — read.  What …

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Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches

11/14/2012

  Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers …

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