| 12 Monkeys by Eizabeth Hand, 210 pages Jeff Gadd 08 February 2002 A weird book and movie but interesting enough. | 14-18: Understanding the Great War (2000) by Annette Becker and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, 237 pages James Donahue 05 March 2007 A reflection on the stereotypes and traditional blinders that people have about the Great War (e.g., trenches filled with with new pacifists and atheists, trenches everywhere, soldiers as victims: "always killed, never killing"), and the supposed nihilism and meaningless of the combat. As if millions died in an accident that noone supported. Good essays on war memorials, civilian atrocities, mourning, wartime Judeo-Christianity, the relationship between WWI and totalitarianism, and the conceptual reinterpretations of the Great War in the 1920s and 1930s. Becker is one my favorite historians and this short book is a crystallization of her best reflections over the past few decades. |
1848: Year of Revolution (2009) by Mike Rapport, 459 pages James Donahue 14 May 2009 |
1984 by George Orwell, 267 pages Steven Krise 19 September 2003 War is peace. |