Peacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
Tag: War (Page 3)
Fantasy FictionThe Eternal War
The war between Heaven and Hell has run for eons and neither side can win. Military fiction with real doctrine, told largely by an artificial intelligence that crossed over.
FictionThe Hole
Two soldiers, one American and one German, fall into the same shell crater in the Ardennes when the temperature hits minus thirty-two. The cold doesn't care which side they're on, and neither can survive the night alone.
FictionThe Wall
A corporal who hangs his lantern on a dead man's hand protruding from the trench wall has stopped flinching at any of it: the rats, the men packed into the mud, the comrade who took three days to die where…
MayMemorial Day
Memorial Day is the last Monday in May. Why it honors those who served, including police and firefighters, and why their stories deserve to be recorded.
Book ReviewsAtonement
A child's catastrophic lie and the lifetime spent trying to atone for it, spanning a 1935 English estate, the retreat to Dunkirk, and wartime London. Beautifully written and structurally daring, with a final turn that reframes the entire book and…
Book Reviews1984
The novel that gave us Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, and the memory hole, a towering dystopia of totalitarianism, surveillance, and the war on truth itself. A masterpiece of political imagination whose warnings have only grown more relevant, and one of…
Book ReviewsCatch-22
The novel that gave the language the phrase catch-22 itself: a savage, absurdist masterpiece of war and bureaucracy, darkly hilarious and genuinely furious beneath the comedy. Its deliberately disorienting structure rewards patience. A landmark of satire, held from the top…
Book ReviewsThe Poppy War
An ambitious, powerful, genuinely disturbing grimdark fantasy debut, bold in its grounding in real twentieth-century Chinese history. Held back by a familiar academy-and-chosen-one structure and by content so extreme, including genocide and sexual violence drawn from real atrocities, that it…
Book ReviewsTolkien and the Great War
An award-winning, illuminating account of how World War I shaped Tolkien and the making of Middle-earth, meticulous in reconstructing his wartime experience and rare in its clarity about his theory of myth and resistance to allegory. One of the best…
Book ReviewsThere Will Come Soft Rains
There are no human characters in Bradbury's story, and that is the point: an automated house goes through its daily routines after nuclear war has killed everyone. It teaches emotional power without people, horror through implication, and lyrical prose in…
1980sHenry V (1989)
Kenneth Branagh's 1989 directorial debut. Mud and blood Agincourt instead of Olivier's pageantry.