Best Books About the Civil WarAn introduction is presented to a section of the journal that is devoted to books on the U.S. Civil War and includes essays from Brenda Wineapple and James M. McPherson.Courteau, Sarah LWilson Quar...
victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New...
It’s been described as a ‘Gravity’s Rainbow for another unfinished war’, and a raucously funny feat of imagination and a thrilling meld of history and fiction. Publishers Weekly featured it in their Ten Best Books of 2023. Ed Park weaves together three distinct narrative voices with an ...
By taking a first-person perspective covering both sides of the Civil War, Shaara can bring the reader into the war and show them the tragedy of Americans killing their fellow Americans. Some of the most notable characters that Shaara included in his book are Joshua Chamberlain, John Buford, ...
(2023). The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-29761-5. ↑ p. 23, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, Zed Books 2004 London. ↑ Li, Hongshan ...
No Time to Die's Cary Fukunaga directs this harrowing feature, which follows the journey of a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced into becoming a child soldier by a fierce warlord (Idris Elba) during an unnamed African civil war. An adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's novel of the same name,...
One of the best LitRPG books of the beginning of 2020, the story follows Grim Jack. He is forced to lead armies and bring people together in only to prevent a war. Dungeons fall one by one and Vogthar seems to take the world over. Grim Jack uses his doomsday weapon, which will take...
No Time to Die's Cary Fukunaga directs this harrowing feature, which follows the journey of a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced into becoming a child soldier by a fierce warlord (Idris Elba) during an unnamed African civil war. An adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's novel of the same name,...
It’s an underdog story told through the lens of the Cambodian Civil War’s propaganda machine. Scenes of Cambodian rock’n’roll club nights and studio recording sessions are depicted in a blissful sunrise palette of deep reds and oranges, with sheet music floating translucently into the ...
including in Ken Burns' PBSCivil Wardocumentary. But the collection is not quite so simple as a rebuttal of misinformation. Instead,Bottom Rail on Topis a sprawling mediation on miss and half rememberings, the distortions and formal perversions of the archive, repetitions and refusings. It is ...