A superb collection of diaries from 20 people who experienced the First World War. There is a combination of civilians, one very young, along with soldiers, nurses and prisoners, from many different countries (a Venezuelan cavalryman fighting for the Ottoman Turks being the most exotic) and it is...
Englund, Peter. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (tr. Peter Graves), Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011 (540pp.$35)Groom, Winston. Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West 1846-47, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011 (310pp.$27.95)Knopf has just publi...
An Austro-Hungarian offensive around the Asiago plateau has been going on since 15 May and the enemy has had great success, at least by comparison with the fruitless pushes by the Italian army over on the Isonzo. Unless the Italians succeed in stopping them they will reach the lowlands and will t...