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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain

On May 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a devastating portrait of our time, a searing and powerful novel that cements Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Home: A Deceptively Rich and Cumulatively Powerful Novel by Toni Morrison

On May 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.

Never Fall Down: A Novel About the Horrors of Khmer Rouge by Patricia McCormick

On April 30, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock ‘n’ roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Based on the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, this is an achingly raw and powerful novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace, from National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick.

The Robert Nairac Mystery – An Account by Author Max Markham

On April 24, 2012, in Guest Writers, Max Markham, Nairac Investigation, Robert Nairac, by Max Markham

I am working with Wilfried Voss to establish some hard facts about the career of the late Captain Robert Nairac GC, Grenadier Guards. As regular readers of this blog will know, Captain Nairac, who was working undercover, was abducted, tortured and murdered by the Provisional IRA in May 1977.

Wish You Were Here – The Return of a Dead Soldier From a Foreign War by Graham Swift

On April 19, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines–the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war–as heart-wrenching personal truth.

Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War by John Steinbeck

On March 29, 2012, in Book Reviews, Essays, History, Military, Nonfiction, by Editor

Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America’s wars based on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no exception.

The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People by Neil Hegarty

On March 19, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Author Neil Hegarty gives readers a fresh perspective on Irish history in this comprehensive and engaging book that places Ireland in an international context. Hegarty offers a new look at Irish history, challenging the accepted stories and long-held myths associated with Ireland.

What’s in a Name: ‘Derry’ or ‘Londonderry’?

On March 17, 2012, in Garrad Gawler, Guest Writers, by Garrad Gawler

Some readers of my recent novel “The Londonderry Air – Testament of an Ulster Gunman” question me why characters, who are obviously from the protestant/unionist/loyalist community, use the term ‘Derry’ and not ‘Londonderry’. I was raised in this community in a small village on the north coast of Ireland in the 1950’s and we regularly used the term ‘Derry’.

The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842 by Diana Preston

On March 10, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Military, Nonfiction, by Editor

Convinced in 1838 that Britain’s invaluable empire in India was threatened by Russia, Persia, and Afghan tribes, the British government ordered its Army of the Indus into Afghanistan to oust from power the independent-minded king, Dost Mohammed, and install in Kabul the unpopular puppet ruler Shah Shuja.

Who Were the Ulster Defence Regiment Soldiers?

On March 7, 2012, in Garrad Gawler, Guest Writers, by Garrad Gawler

It is hard, for security reasons, to obtain demographic information about the UDR’s members; even general statistics are difficult to obtain. Depending which source you read, between 40 and 50 thousand people served for some time in the UDR between its formation in April 1970 and its amalgamation with the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992.

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