Pacific Crucible

19 Mar 2020

by Andrew Speno | posted in: WWII, WWII: Pacific Theater | 0

Ian Toll‘s Pacific War Trilogy, coming in at more than 1,700 pages of text and 500 pages of notes and sources, obviously aims for comprehensiveness. Yet, in its breadth, there are nevertheless many moments of you-were-there intimacy. Instead of dry … Continued

7 Mar 2020

Norman Mailer’s Audacious Big Novel

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Good Reads: Fiction, WWII, WWII: Pacific Theater | 0

Silly or serious? Silly and serious? The fight over American Dirt can seem either or both. “Mexicans have been writing about the border and borderlands published in English since the 1800s. It is a bit insulting that someone thinks we … Continued

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