https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ elfbiter - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 22 May 2017 03:29:45 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios elfbiter personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7491818/2170751 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10404.html Mon, 22 May 2017 03:29:45 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10404.html <i><b>Samuel Hynes</b> - The Soldiers' Tale</i><br /><br />This is a book about <i>war narratives</i> - not war as such. Even if Hynes wrote one himself. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10404.html#cutid1">Did he study too few narratives?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=10404" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10404.html warfare great war books military history reviews world war two vietnam war war literature world war one military military narrative public 0 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10040.html Mon, 22 May 2017 03:28:46 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10040.html <b><i>Ben Shephard</i></b> - The Long Road Home<br /><br />After World War Two ended, there were still lots of people who were not where they wanted to be, where they were supposed to be or were in a situation where they would still be killed in short order if they did not move.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10040.html#cutid1">Post-WW2 refugee movements were bit bigger than the current ones</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=10040" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10040.html cold war zionism jewish holocaust politics warfare refugees books ethnic cleansing reviews world war two immigration ben shephard public 0 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/9884.html Mon, 22 May 2017 03:26:39 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/9884.html <i><b>Ben Shephard</b> - A War of Nerves</i><br /><br />Warfare causes more than just physical wounds – but the mental side of the toll of war was really not studied for centuries (mainly because common soldiers were expendable anyway). So the study really started only around the World War One. Ben Shephard traces some of those developments, mostly based of Western European and US records. <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/9884.html#cutid1">From shell shock to PTSD</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=9884" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/9884.html military psychiatry vietnam war world war one military history reviews world war two ben shephard warfare psychology politics books combat fatigue post-dramatic stress disorder public 1