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World War II

A Question of Circumstances

by Luigi Pintor,Translated by Gregory Elliott,

From Servabo: A Fin de Siècle Memoir, first published in Italian in 1991, and included in Memories from the Twentieth Century, edited by Alberto Toscano, a collection of three of…

Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

by Lawrence Douglas,

Enduring the "last great Nazi war-crimes trial"

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

Why I’m a Pacifist

by Nicholson Baker,

The dangerous myth of the Good War

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Did he, as a Navy pilot, strafe a lifeboat?

About forty years ago, in a high-school English class, I learned that talking about literature, like talking about yourself, incurs some small dangers of self-revelation, even though literary talk is…

My War

by Paul Fussell,

How I got irony in the infantry

“Unhappy Talk”

by Hayes B. Jacobs,

A non-psychologist, with an honorable discharge, reports on the quaint speech patterns among sex-starved, unrelaxed island dwellers.

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

by William Jeremiah Coughlin,

Was this the deadliest error of our time?

World War II

A Question of Circumstances

Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

Conjectural damage

Why I’m a Pacifist

Dearest Bug

Barbed Wire

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

Literary Talk

My War

“Unhappy Talk”

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

Debug

World War II

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A Question of Circumstances

Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

Conjectural damage

Why I’m a Pacifist

Dearest Bug

Barbed Wire

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

Literary Talk

My War

“Unhappy Talk”

The Great Mokusatsu Mistake

March 1953

Debug