The battles that Tolstoy describes in "War and Peace", which was published in the late 1860s, were neither tidy nor heroic.
How distant is my bougie life in NY from the lives of the people being described in this war, both the military and the citizens?" I was looking for a way to find some sound to capture that distance.
Every major life journey or challenge tends to be described in terms of war.
As a physician who has worked in university medical centers and community clinics, I was deeply impressed by the front-line care-giving described in Wounds of War.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has renewed a subpoena in a case involving an alleged leak of classified information on a bungled attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear program that was described in "State of War," a 2006 book by James Risen.
The cooperation with the Chetnik battalion was described in the IX SS Mountain Corps war diary as "effective".
Here, Strantz worked with a palette of deep green forest, gray stone cliffs and glinting brooks, reminiscent of scenes described in the Civil War novel "Cold Mountain".
In "The Balkan Express: Fragments From the Other Side of the War," she described, in poignant terms, how the war stripped Yugoslavs of their individuality and plunged the land into ever-accelerating cycles of destruction and despair.
A union that was growing by 100,000 annually in 2006-2008 hit hithehe wall, due to external enemies and the internal dysfunction that I described in "The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor" (Haymarket Books, 2011).
Stegosaurus, one of the many dinosaurs first collected and described in the Bone Wars, was originally named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877, from remains recovered north of Morrison, Colorado.
