American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military From the Revolution to Desert Storm, by Gail Buckley (Random House, $15.95), pays tribute to the often-ignored role of black soldiers during America's wars, finding both grandeur and tragedy in their contributions.
The photo has long since faded and Nicholas has long since died, but there we are - two veterans of two Vietnam wars, finding it hard to smile, not just because we'd each lost our war against the Vietnamese.
"It's a war, finding fresh, local fish," Mr. Benelli said.
The war was a catalyst for the great migration of African Americans, and those who returned from the war, finding inequality intact, demanded civil rights.
Sometime after the war, finding the journal in a drawer, Nelly added a few words to the mother she had lost; later, Chantal wrote in the diary, too.
As is well known, Goldstone led a UN commission that issued a detailed and damning report on the Gaza war, finding that both Israeli and Hamas forces committed war crimes.
He revived his sense of self by playing for Israeli troops during the Yom Kippur war and visiting Ethiopia just before the civil war, finding creative inspiration in proximity to violence.
The trial also resolved one of the biggest controversies of the Bosnian war, finding the Serbs responsible for the Sarajevo market massacre of August 1995 which left more than 40 dead and dozens wounded.
But in an unparalleled case concluded at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the UN's supreme judicial authority delivered a damning verdict on Serbia's role in the 1992-95 war, finding that Belgrade did nothing to prevent what the court described as an act of genocide at Srebrenica in 1995 despite its close links with and support for the Bosnian Serb military.
However, there was one more visit to India in that year as he played Raaz, a boatman, in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, about a man traumatised by the First World War finding spiritual solace in India and Nepal.
The former Communist bloc allies have only recently begun to overcome years of bitterness in the aftermath of the cold war, finding reconciliation through tragedy after the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and much of the government elite were killed in a plane crash in western Russia in April.
