Of course, throughout the Cold War, recollections of the Allied victory in the Soviet Union and the West were very different.
Her on-off relationship with the charming, untrustworthy Jasper, her daughter's father, takes place after the war, but her recollection of it is described early in the novel, long before we know about Tom.
Back then, our most recent recollection of war was Desert Storm, a six-week campaign that ousted Saddam Hussein from Kuwait with fewer than 150 US military personnel killed in action.
Edward L. Daily, the Korean War veteran whose unsettling recollections of gunning down civilians made him the most sought-after witness to the killings, now agrees that he was not on the scene, The Associated Press said yesterday.
Young South Koreans have no recollection of the war.
Mr. Morris did point out one aspect of World War I that might make recollections of it more palatable for audiences, at least in the United States.
They had prepared by reading an excerpt from "Malignant Memoirs of the Past," Mr. Candell's unpublished recollections of the war.
Littell opens his Second World War novel, told through the recollections of a German officer named Max Aue, with a breakdown of how many Germans, Soviets, and Jews died, minute by minute, in the conflict.
And within a year or two of starting up he had published two classic war memoirs, Alex Bowlby's The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby (1969) and John Goldsmith's Accidental Agent (1971).
