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, ...
it would always be possible to think of even more things that don’t exist, – simply, in the least imaginative way, by naming variations on, or parodies of everything that does exist. So
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 ...
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 ...
their own work is that it uses these forms and elements to describe something that is whole, natural and above all universal –the ‘otherness’ of the figures Nolde drew and painted on his trip to the South Seas (and even of his incredibly bold landscapes) just before WW1 is inescapable...