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“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I

6/16/2017

Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them.  Just go read it, that’s all! …

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The Irish in WW I – a preview

5/30/2017

I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way.  The language is so inventive and surprising that …

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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 …

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“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 …

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Across The Black Waters — Indian-British Soldiers at the Western Front

4/8/2016

That British, French and German soldiers fought and died in their millions on the Western Front in WW I is …

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William Faulkner and WW I: A Fable

1/11/2016

Since I’ve been sparse in posting these last weeks, for various (all good) reasons, I thought I’d re-post this look …

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1914: Slender Novel, Big War

11/9/2015

  Although Jean Echenoz is both widely read and a winner of multiple literary prizes in France you’d have to …

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The Great Swindle: Opportunities in France, 1919

11/5/2015

Pierre Lemaitre has won a substantial following both in his native France and abroad for writing crime fiction.  His Commandant Camille …

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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

4/20/2015

If you’ve never read anything about life in the trenches during World War One, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and …

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The Canal Bridge — Irishmen in WW I

3/20/2015

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The First Casualty – A WW I Conscientious Objector as Sleuth

3/10/2015

Ben Elton’s 2012 mystery, The First Casualty, is a fine combination of two popular literary genres: men at war and …

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Parade’s End — Benedict Cumberbatch as England’s Last Tory

1/29/2015

The 5 hour HBO/BBC mini-series, Parade’s End, (2012) with Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, is a miracle of lossless compression, …

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