Posts Tagged with ‘War’
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
23 Mar 2022Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has…
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Quick Recommendations
16 Dec 2021A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six…
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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
06 Dec 2021Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other…
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The Road – Vasily Grossman
16 Jul 2021Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral…
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The Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte
02 Jul 2021It is a rare event for a woman to write of war. Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been…
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Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
26 Jun 2021Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do…
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War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
18 Jun 2021Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about…
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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
09 Jun 2021If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace…
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Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
23 Jul 2020There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world…
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
19 Dec 2019One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade…
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The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma
20 Sep 2019Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people, …
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Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film
11 Jul 2019R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897…
