Maria Bochkareva and the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death - Who Did What in WW1?: Directed by Toni Steller, Florian Wittig. With Indy Neidell.
World War One was fought in Europe from 1914 to 1918. It was a world war in the sense of the major European powers and their colonies using their resources to fight a war to the capitulation of the enemy. The home front, servicemen, money, technology, military policies, ...
How did the Treaty of Versailles, and its aftermath, help lead directly to World War II? How did World War II change the lives of many women in the United States? How did World War II affect the political geography of Europe? How did war literature change after the attack on Pearl Harb...
How did the Great Depression change the role of government in America? How did the War of 1812 affect Canada? How did the Cold War affect Canada? How were women treated during the Great Depression? How did the Great Depression affect the Weimar Republic? How did the Great Depression cause ...
Way back in April this year Henrik Palm released an album called Nerd Icon (via Svart Records). It’s very good – 80s-inflected melodic hard rock is as good a description as any, I guess, but it has a very individual personality and none of the pomposity or poser quality of that ki...
It’s no great surprise to me that my favourite books of the year would be – like much of my favourite art – by women. Though I think the individual voice is crucial in all of the arts, individuals don’t grow in a vacuum and because female (and, more widely, non-male) voices ...
It was the aftermath of the war that caused the United States a lot of time‚ money and lives of men and women of the armed forces. The war was a very unpopular with a majority of the citizens of the United States. The reason why the war was unpopular it was not the just the ...
Anne too, is a surprisingly vivid and sympathetic character; Westall’s female characters are often on the verge of caricature and his usual (youthful, male) protagonists tend to have a manly impatience with the women in his books. I would hesitate to call Westall’s books misogynistic, but ...