Posts Tagged with ‘WW I’
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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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“Schlump,” a Novel of WW I
09 May 2017The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the…
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
02 Feb 2017It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…
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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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Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
19 Jul 2016Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable…
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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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Not So Quiet On the Western Front, A Woman Looks at WW I
20 May 2016Helen Zenna Smith, who wrote one of the most powerful witnesses to war I’ve ever read, was the pseudonym of…
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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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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
28 Aug 2015Nothing like good history, thoroughly researched and well written, helps better to put in place pieces of the immense human puzzle…
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The African Queen: WW I Adventureland
23 Jul 2015Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d…