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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Military</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/military/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19419</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19419#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:01:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Carthage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Greece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Rome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hannibal]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19419</guid> <description><![CDATA[Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage was destroyed. In three brutal wars, Carthage's military power was annihilated by the legions of the Roman Republic. The city was ransacked and burned, down to its foundations. The people of Carthage were massacred or enslaved. The literature of the city was put to the torch. Not a stone was left upon a stone.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19419/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great&#8217;s Empire by Robin Waterfield</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15694</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15694#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:14:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alexander The Great]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fourth century B.C.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[third century B.C.]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15694</guid> <description><![CDATA[It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for power nearly as manic as had possessed Alexander. Ptolemy, however, showed a greater restraint. Though he launched several offensive campaigns, Ptolemy largely contented himself with ruling Egypt. Moreover, his policy decisions were marked by an astute blend of urban and economic development, along with encouraging the arts and sciences. Where Demetrius squandered vast sums on siege towers and Dreadnought-sized warships, Ptolemy built Alexandria into a cultural center whose brilliance eventually surpassed Athens.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15694/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Winston Churchill</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14602</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14602#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biopics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Max Hastings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie biopic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies historical]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The King's Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Hooper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14602</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished career a number of other high positions, including Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. Renowned as an orator and statesman, he enjoys a permanent place in Western history. The adventure and controversy pervading his professional life seem ripe for an enterprising screenwriter to pick.
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isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13701</guid> <description><![CDATA[This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with <em>The Way Back</em>, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13701/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Winston&#8217;s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9956</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9956#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:22:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9956</guid> <description><![CDATA[The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his wife, Clementine called the “valley of humiliation.” Defeats in Greece, in the Battle of Crete and in North Africa in 1941 were followed by the Japanese capture of Singapore in February 1942. That same month, the daring “Channel Dash” by German warships under siege in Cherbourg to their home naval bases stung British pride to its core. Great Britain, the nation of Marlborough, Churchill’s warrior ancestor, and Lord Nelson was losing the war on land and sea.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9956/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8878</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8878#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:48:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vietnam war]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8878</guid> <description><![CDATA[The story is set in the spring of 1969 in the northwest corner of the country then known as South Vietnam. It revolves around a mountain named Matterhorn, a 5,000 plus foot peak so steep in some areas that ropes are required to scale it. The Marines face other obstacles also. At night it is so cold and wet that hypothermia is a problem. Much of the terrain is carpeted with leech-infested triple canopy rain forest, its undergrowth so thick as to require slashing through with machetes. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8878/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8257</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8257#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Katherine Tomlinson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8257</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (“tarp”), a man his men call “Sage Knight” and treat like a rock star when they find out he has two wives and often has sex six times a day.  But Gallagher never develops the same relationship with “Suge” that <em>New York Times</em> reporter Sidney Schanberg did with his interpreter Dith Pran in <em>The Killing Fields</em>, and we can’t help but think the conversations were nothing more than a way for Gallagher to pass the time.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8257/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/7665</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/7665#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles de Gaulle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dien Bien Phu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ho Chi Minh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Foster Dulles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vietnam war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vo Nguyen Giap]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=7665</guid> <description><![CDATA[Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife who was arrested and died in a French prison. A model of cool, methodical persistence, Giap was not goaded or tricked into a rash counterattack on Dien Bien Phu. He patiently assembled his forces, digging gun positions in the forested slopes overlooking the French defenses and amassing a huge supply of ammunition carried by thousands of porters through the jungle. Then on March 13, 1954, Giap struck at Dien Bien Phu, capturing several key strong-points and pounding the air strip so that supply planes could no longer land. The base aero-terrestre had become a death trap.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/7665/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Small Wars by Sadie Jones</title><link>http://calitreview.com/6193</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/6193#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyprus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sadie Jones]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=6193</guid> <description><![CDATA[The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable Mickey Mouse conflict; it was a sinister time of terror and repression. The British were misguided and ignorant; the Cypriots were lethargic and foolish. The Cypriots loved the British; the Cypriots hated the British. The British were torturers; the British were decent and honourable. EOKA were terrorists; EOKA were heroes.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/6193/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Thirty Years War: Europe&#8217;s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5837</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5837#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thirty Years War]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5837</guid> <description><![CDATA[In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in Central Europe sparked a rush to arms that dragged in nations and peoples whose best interests lay in peace not war. With the focus of Europe’s economic activity shifting toward the Atlantic Ocean and the East Indian trade zones, the small states of Central Europe needed to integrate their economies to stay competitive. The last thing that petty states like Bohemia, Saxony, Bavaria and the Rhineland needed to do was throw away lives and treasure in futile warfare. But fight they did – for thirty years.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5837/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4466</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4466#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Korean War]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4466</guid> <description><![CDATA[On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry Olsen, the army physician he is replacing. Olsen speaks to him as follows; “There’s no roof that doesn’t leak. The rats are fearless. Flies rule the country. Everybody steals. Orphans, refugees everywhere. They’re coming down from the north. There’s no equipment to speak of. There’s no sterilizer. And the dirt, the vermin….It’s yours now.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4466/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel&#8217;s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4079</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4079#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Abourezk</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4079</guid> <description><![CDATA[The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of many of President Johnson’s senior advisers over Israel’s claim that the attack was an accident. Even LBJ was convinced the attack was no accident and confided his disbelief in Israel’s story to a Newsweek reporter, stating that he believed Israel attacked the ship because it was spying on the war. The book also quotes many senior State Department, Navy, NSA and CIA officials talking of their disbelief in the story.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4079/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3919</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3919#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bataan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3919</guid> <description><![CDATA[This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941 to April of 1942. In an astounding oversight, General MacArthur, by then en route to Corregidor, disregarded the logistical requirements of his retreating army. He left behind, in one example, 450 million bushels of wheat in a single warehouse despite his junior offices protestations. His starving soldiers ended up eating carabou—until all carabou were gone—then snakes, lizards, crows, whatever. The allied forces, lacking resupply and experience, were pushed back repeatedly, finally making their last stand on the tip of Bataan at the town of Mariveles.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3919/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2601</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2601#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agincourt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernard Cornwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2601</guid> <description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2601/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief   by James M. McPherson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2058</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2058#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lincoln]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2058</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832 but as he said in self-deprecation to his fellow Members of Congress in 1848, his combat record amounted to “charges upon the wild onions” and “a good many struggles with the musketoes.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2058/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1656</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1656#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Native American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daniel Boone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1656</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat – and this on both sides. Again Boone survived this melee, but it took a great deal of guile to do it. When his daughter Jemima was kidnapped by a Cherokee and Shawnee war party, for instance, he needed his backwoods know-how to track them down quickly and shoot the offenders.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1656/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Events Leading to America&#8217;s Involvement in Vietnam</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1472</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1472#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rufus Phillips</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vietnam war]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1472</guid> <description><![CDATA[Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two years, or even less, seemed unavoidable. Beyond vague ideas of somehow rallying the Vietnamese in the South and contingency plans for creating stay-behind agents to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Vietminh, the U.S. had little idea of how to prevent a complete Communist take-over.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1472/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Résistance by Agnès Humbert</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1459</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1459#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agnes Humbert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1459</guid> <description><![CDATA[The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious to the reason why a German car might be parked outside the hospital her mother is in, Humbert walks straight into hell. A member of the Gestapo has infiltrated and betrayed their group, and she and her friends are rounded up for a show trial. It is only April 1941. What follows is an account that tests our 21st century belief in rationalism.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1459/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1189</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1189#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Native American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[custer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[george custer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[little bighorn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1189</guid> <description><![CDATA[Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian warfare, the outcome would have been very different. But the Sioux and Cheyennes, fighting with their backs to the wall against the encroaching tide of white civilization, opted for a pitched battle and almost from the outset, Custer’s tactical plan went terribly wrong.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1189/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters</title><link>http://calitreview.com/875</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/875#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=875</guid> <description><![CDATA[Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North Korean society is in a permanent mobilization. Party and government declarations are stripped down to single-line catchphrases. Through their endless repetition in banners, newspaper headlines, and media reports, these compact slogans become self-explanatory, simultaneously interpreting and constructing reality.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/875/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>227</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark</title><link>http://calitreview.com/804</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/804#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:29:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anthrax]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Armageddon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aum Shinrikyo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biological warfare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bioterror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wmd]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=804</guid> <description><![CDATA[Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information and materials for use in bioweapons. In 1995, he sought to hasten the apocalypse and seize earthly power by spreading an unlikely sacrament, sarin gas, in the Tokyo subway system. This event killed twelve people outright and injured another thousand or more, many of them seriously. The group had carried out a previous gassing, a sort of practice run for the Tokyo event, in the outlying town of Matsumoto. Seven died.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/804/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Boy&#8217;s View of a World War</title><link>http://calitreview.com/793</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/793#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=793</guid> <description><![CDATA[The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to the Continent. They spent most of the summer there. My father kept a journal that was full of business data but also recorded tragic scenes, including the crowds of people walking down Dutch roads, coming back from forced labor in Germany, and the almost total desolation in Hamburg, where Allied bombing raids had killed perhaps fifty thousand people and a million others fled the city.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/793/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech</title><link>http://calitreview.com/776</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/776#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bolshevik Revolution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eugene Debs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Socialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warren Harding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=776</guid> <description><![CDATA[Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time presidential candidate for a third-party crusade against capitalism. He was a homegrown rebel, born and raised in Indiana, and a powerful speaker who knew how to translate socialism into an American idiom.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/776/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman</title><link>http://calitreview.com/698</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/698#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1920s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nancy Love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=698</guid> <description><![CDATA[They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young and pretty Nancy Harkness was hired to demonstrate and sell airplanes. Predicted to replace the family car, the private plane was seen as the wave of the future. If women could fly it, the perception was, anybody could. What Love thought of all of this malarkey, the cheesecake photographs and press coverage, is hard to determine.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/698/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/415</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/415#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Topics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denis Johnson]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/415/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through every aspect of life in this jungle country more than forty years ago, <em>Tree of Smoke</em> subtly hammers the reader with an unceasing rage that is the true nature of war’s insanity.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/415/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views</title><link>http://calitreview.com/315</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/315#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/02/07/notes-from-italy-villains-romance-and-views/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of the Caesars the people here were Aequi, an Italic tribe of rough herders whom the Romans subdued with difficulty. For many centuries, probably millennia, the Aequi practiced transhumance, leading their herds over the Serra in late autumn to spend the winter in pastures in the Liri valley far below, and returning to the uplands for summer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/315/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot</title><link>http://calitreview.com/310</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/310#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:07:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ashley Gilbertson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/01/28/battle-for-falluja-photos-from-whiskey-tango-foxtrot/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine responded, “Yeah, right, University of Jihad, motherfucker.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/310/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/284</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/284#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:10:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Patton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rick Atkinson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/11/14/the-day-of-battle-by-rick-atkinson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any war to appear in the last decade or more. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/284/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb</title><link>http://calitreview.com/273</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/273#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:45:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Kuran</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[atomic bomb]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/22/images-from-how-to-photograph-an-atomic-bomb/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground, in the ocean or in outer space.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/273/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>40</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Almost a Miracle by John Ferling</title><link>http://calitreview.com/272</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/272#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Ferling]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/18/almost-a-miracle-by-john-ferling/</guid> <description><![CDATA[As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were frequent and while many men soldiered, many of these same soldiers died. Still others, the least fortunate in some respects came home from the wars, but not in one piece, physically or mentally. Nor were those who bore arms alone in experiencing the terrors of war. Civilians who dwelled on the exposed frontier in wartime lived with the constant fear of a potential surprise attack, and virtually every citizen, in every generation, and in every colony paid war taxes, tolerated wartime scarcities, endured war-induced inflation, and struggled through postwar economic busts.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/272/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
