Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction:War’
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The Things They Carried – Writing About War
04 Feb 2014The 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
23 Jan 2014It’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
02 Jan 2014Ben 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
09 Nov 2013William 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
11 Apr 2013I 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
28 Jan 2013Jaroslav 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
09 Jan 2013I’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
07 Jan 2013Paradise 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
11 Dec 2012Bao 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
01 Dec 2012Girl 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
30 Nov 2012Beginning 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
14 Nov 2012Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers…
