Posts Tagged with ‘History’
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On War with Gwynne Dyer
05 Jun 2017On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian…
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
21 Nov 2015After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert…
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WW I: Germany Impatient with Austro-Hungary Indecision
12 Jul 2014On July 12, 1914 Ambassador Count Laslo Szögyény reported from Berlin that everyone in the German government wanted to see Austria-Hungary declare…
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WW I: War Preparations Grip Austria-Hungary
09 Jul 2014On July 9, 1914 Austria-Hungary Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold advised Emperor Franz Joseph that he would present Belgrade, [Serbia] with an ultimatum…
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Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
27 Mar 2014Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500…
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WW I As Recorded by those Who Were There
15 Jan 2014The British National Archives has announced that in this 100th year anniversary of the beginning of WW I, (August), that…
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Philomena: A Mother’s Ache in Ireland
03 Dec 2013I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to see Philomena, Stephen Frears latest movie. An hour and a half of suffering,…
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Earth: The Tectonics of Violence
25 Oct 2013Deepa Mehta’s Earth is the second in her film trilogy of women’s lives in India as the country exited from…
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Finding George Orwell in Burma, Emma Larkin — A Literary Traveler
27 Dec 2012When I first came across Emma Larkin’s title, Finding George Orwell in Burma I didn’t know what to make of…
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and Power by Steve Coll
15 Nov 2012The London Review of Books [8 Nov, 2012] reviews Steve Coll’s new, indispensable volume, Private Empire: ExxonMobile and Power. Coll will be…
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Post War: A History of Europe since 1945, Tony Judt
04 Aug 2012Tony Judt’s magisterial work, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 wasn’t his last before his sadly premature death, but it was…
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The Crimean War: Orlando Figes
03 May 2012In 1853 the United States was 8 years away from a civil war. Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo only…
