Erziehung Vor Verdun, or Education Before Verdun, is a powerful semi-autobiographical novels set during WWI by Prussian-born Jew Arnold Zweig.
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YWR: In Every Clime and Place
It’s military sci-fi reminiscent of the Banana Wars, with a little of the Barbary Coast thrown in for spice. Check out “In Every Clime and Place” for Your Weekend Read.
For the Living: A Soldier’s Story on Veterans Day
Brought to you today in its entirety by Quantico Tactical. Skip the local dancing moms (this time); visit these guys instead. For the Living: A Soldier's Story on Veterans Day Chris Hernandez Veterans Day isn’t about the fallen. They have their own day. And Veterans...
YWR: My War Gone By I Miss It So
"Over a three-week period in the autumn of 1993, the fate of Vareš opened before me like a perverted fairytale. The cast included the Muslim folk of a forest village, a murderous pilgrim rogue and his band of killers in the valley below, a serb warrior who had the...
Arkady Babchenko: One Soldier’s War | Your Weekend Read
This is a troubling, miserable, depressing, superb book. Arkady Babchenko gives one of the few first-person accounts of the Chechen Wars: One Soldier’s War.
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YWR: Lost in Shangri-La
In today’s Your Weekend Read we bring you a true story of survival in WWII, but probably not in the places you’re thinking. Lost in Shangri-La.
YWR: Harm’s Way
Harm’s Way is a fictionalized account of a South Pacific campaign in WWII. The book takes its name from the John Paul Jones oft-quoted statement, “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.”
YWR: 52 Lessons from It’s a Wonderful Life
Your Weekend Read today is a book about a movie–Yes, an internet post about a book about a movie. There’s gotta be some kind of inception going on here.
YWR: And The Rain Came Down
And The Rain Came Down sprouted from the twisted and alcohol-addled mind of one Seth Anderson Bailey. You should read it.
Review: Only the Dead [See the End of War]
Just released Monday on HBO is a new documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware, who spent seven years in Iraq. It’s called Only the Dead [See the End of War]. Watch it.