Monday, May 16, 2011

Rosa's letters reviewed

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/red-rosa/8500/


"It was precisely the expression of a child that has been punished and doesn’t know why or what for, doesn’t know how to get away from this torment and raw violence … "

Great war

Author interview:
http://www.freespeech.org/video/grittv-adam-hochschild-end-all-wars

and review:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-to-end-all-wars-by-adam-hochschild.html?_r=1


" ... it forever shattered the self-assured, sunlit Europe of hussars and dragoons in plumed helmets and emperors waving from open, horse-drawn carriages."    


"I once interviewed the British writer John Berger, born in London in 1926, but who sometimes felt, he told me, as if 'I was born near Ypres on the Western Front in 1917. The first thing I really remember about [my father] was him waking up screaming in the middle of the night, having one of his recurring nightmares about the war.' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/excerpt-to-end-all-wars-by-adam-hochschild.html?pagewanted=3&ref=review