Then come the later novels, set in contemporary Germany and often crime-based in some way to reveal the seamy side of the post-war German ‘economic miracle’ (Undercover Man, 1970; A Time for Scandal, 1973; A Time for Truth, 1974; A Time for Payment, 1976). Finally, the outliers: ...
Three Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden. Joseph’s maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his father’s side, served as soldiers during the First World War, and Boyden draws upon a wealth of family narratives. This novel follows the journey o...
According to Tanaka Yuki, author ofHidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II,the modern Japanese army had great potential for brutality from the moment of its creation for two reasons: the arbitrary and cruel treatment that the military inflicted on its own officers and soldiers, and...
…Guard of Honoris more than an account of the complex workings of a large air force base–and, by extension, of a country at war. It is two other things as well. For the reader, it is a living one’s way into the military mind. The two characters through whose eyes we most ofte...
The Naked and the Dead, novel by Norman Mailer, published in 1948 and hailed as one of the finest American novels to come out of World War II. The story concerns a platoon of 13 American soldiers who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei
World War I lasted from 1914-1918. Since World War I ended, every year on 11 November we remember the people in the armed forces who died in battle. This is called Remembrance Day. It also marks the day that World War I ended in 1918. World War I involved two main sides: the Allie...
Here you set your story in the world we live in, butyour plotis either based on a real event (as inOutlander) or is one in which historical events occur differently (for instance, had Germany won World War 2). In Philip K. Dick’sThe Man in the High Castle, he imagines a world ...
Filed underd-day,Museums,Uncategorized,World War Two Tagged asd-day,D-Day Museum,Operation Overlord,second world war,World War Two The Long Long LONG Trail: First World War on the TV (part 1) With the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War looming, we have already seen a ste...
THE IDES OF MARCH by Valerio Massimo Manfredi The new novel by Italy’s most popular historical novelist is a thriller about the plot to murder the most powerful man on earth. See more Mandredi novels here. RANSOM by David Malouf “evokes the final days of the Trojan War with cinematic vi...
例如,《美国传统图片史:第二次世界大战》(The American Heritage Picture History of World War II,1966)是美国多年来最畅销的单卷本“二战”图片史图书,其中不但没有收录一张南京大屠杀的图片,甚至对事件本身只字未提。无论是丘吉尔长达1 065页的名著《第二次世界大战回忆录》(Memoirs of the Second World ...