Related tags:
wwii + (31)
war + (18)
history + (18)
worldwar2 + (16)
ww2 + (15)
propaganda + (7)
photography + (7)
germany + (7)
internment + (5)
russia + (5)
military + (4)
JapaneseAmerican + (4)
japan + (4)


Users that often use this tag:
goodnewsfortheinsane (6)
Joe Beese (4)
kirkaracha (4)
Trurl (3)
Kattullus (2)
hama7 (2)

Noel Perrin, "The Best American Novel about World War II": Guard of Honor is a classic (I think), but it is a hard one to put in an American literature course. Why? Because [James Gould] Cozzens was not a romantic. ... Its rightful place is as one of the greatest social novels ever written in America. [more inside]
posted by Trurl on Feb 21, 2012 - 15 comments

I am not going to try now to open the eyes of the world to the Leningrad Blockade. What I will write about here is less ambitious and somewhat more promising: the literature of the siege. [more inside]
posted by Trurl on Oct 12, 2011 - 7 comments

Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1, 2, 3) [more inside]
posted by Trurl on Oct 3, 2011 - 12 comments