Tonight my Military History Book Club will be discussing John Lukacs’s The Legacy of the Second World War. I had not previously been acquainted with John Lukacs, so I was surprised by the manner in which this book was written. The narrative is flowing and readable, but rather loosely structured. His argument is quite nuanced […]
Our Military History Bookclub is currently reading The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer, first published in French as Le Soldat Oublie in 1967. The book is the memoir of Guy Sajer who served as a young conscript (16 or 17) in Germany’s army on the Eastern Front in World War II. This book is standard […]
Military History Bookclub: founded in early 2009 by three chaps who work at the University of Saskatchewan. There are eight current members. Currently Reading: The Forgotten Solider, by Guy Sajer. (The Forgotten Soldier, Fact or Fiction?) Next in Queue: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988), by Neil Sheehan. Completed: […]
Next up for our military book club is Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale (US edition, published by Henry Holt & Co.). Catherine Merridale is the author of the 2002 book Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia, a book that “explores Russian perceptions of death […]
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