“Across these years, hundreds of thousands of young men and women signed on in good faith and served in the lower and middle ranks. They did not make policy. They lived within it.”
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Seeing Private Everyman
Steve Edwards searches for the hidden truths in the public and private sacrifices his granddad made serving in World War II.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
A Music So Beautiful the Birds Fell from the Trees
How two exiled Sufi musicians returned to make traditional music in postwar Kabul, Afghanistan.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History, Story
The Camouflage Artist: Two World Wars, Two Loves, and One Great Deception
In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
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A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
Tangled in the Infinite War
Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?
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In Praise of Cowardice
A humorous personal essay in which Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
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Tales of War and Redemption
“The violence I have seen has left me feeling hollowed out, unable to gild all the agony with some beautiful meaning.”
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Whose Fault Was Dunkirk?
For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda?
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
Whose Fault Was Dunkirk?
For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda?