Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction:WW I’
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“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I
16 Jun 2017Some 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
30 May 2017I 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
14 Dec 2016Andre 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
07 Jun 2016War 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
08 Apr 2016That 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
11 Jan 2016Since 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
09 Nov 2015Although 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
05 Nov 2015Pierre 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
20 Apr 2015If 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
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The First Casualty – A WW I Conscientious Objector as Sleuth
10 Mar 2015Ben 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
29 Jan 2015The 5 hour HBO/BBC mini-series, Parade’s End, (2012) with Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, is a miracle of lossless compression,…
