Yet another article in a long list of articles this year on the importance of teaching the world’s youth about their military history, this time with a focus on America’s Civil War.
"Recent works focusing on the personal writings of the Japanese who died for their country provide Americans a chance to learn, perhaps for the first time, who these soldiers actually were."
Notable writers and authors were asked to "recommend titles they find particularly illuminating" by the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Here’s their list.
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is military historian George Hageman’s subject this week. Don’t know who Viktor Bout is? Catch the movie Lord of War with Nicolas Cage.
Robin Rowland echoes the lament of many military historians in this blog: "If someone is going to either support, or criticize the military, or both, it is wise to have a knowledge of military history." Amen, brother.
"This is a long post. You can go directly to the last sentence without any loss of meaning." So says the author of this blog, Oliver Kamm. But, to do so would I think cause the reader to miss out on Kamm giving Media Lens and those who collectively write about some form of military history without knowing or citing the facts the what-for.
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