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World War I

Film Review: “1917” — War is Hell, Up-Close

George MacKay’s astonishing turn lifts 1917 from pyrotechnical marvel to a shattering emotional experience.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 1917, Sam Mendes, World War I

Film Review: “Frantz” — The Changeable Color of Grief

Frantz explores the complicated emotions generated by the aftermath of a catastrophic war.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: "Frantz", Francois Ozon, french film, Paula Beer, Peg Aloi, World War I

Film Review: “Sunset Song” — Misogyny in the Highlands

I wanted to like Sunset Song, steeped as it is in Scottish history and scenery.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Agyness Deyn, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Peg Aloi, Scotland, Sunset Song, Terence Davies, World War I

Book Review: Blaise Cendrars’ Brilliant WW I Memoir — Surviving the “Shambles” of War

The Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Blaise Cendrars, french, Graham MacLachlan, nonfiction-in-translation, The Bloody Hand, translation, World War I

Film Review: “The Water Diviner” — Starts Out Well But Takes a Dive

Actor Russell Crowe’s directorial debut is visually gripping and very well acted — but its ending is disappointingly hokey.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Battle of Gallipoli, Paul Dervis, Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner, World War I

Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Press, Poetry, The New Oxford Book of War Poetry, War poetry, World War I

Book Review and Interview: “The Lost History of 1914” — Almost the War That Wasn’t

In his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Jack Beatty, NPR, On Point, Short Fuse, The Lost History of 1914, World War I

Book Review: To End All Wars

“To End All Wars” embodies its themes –- the decline of the aristocracy, the rise of propaganda, the transformation of war-making, the heroism of resistance –- so skillfully in a dozen or so major characters and another dozen minor ones that this history of the First World War reads like a lively group biography.

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books Tagged: 1914-1919, Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, World War I

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