Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film
R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897 …
R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897 …
Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …
Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war …
The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love, …
For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …
In between wars are other wars. Men fight in them all, whatever is available. Between World War I and …
Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder. Those …
We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement …
In his first novel, The Train Was on Time (1949), Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985), wrote of soldiers going …
Ingmar Bergman‘s films are not generally thought of among war films: couples down and apart, landscapes severe and forbidding, …
So, you like scary stories? Something to keep you awake and afraid? Here’s one for you: not thieves in the …
Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came …