A Garden in Hiroshima
Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.
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Class AllegoryThe Fisherman’s War
An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.
FamilyVeterans Day: Preserving the Stories That Deserve to Be Told
My first ghostwriting project was my grandfather's story, a WWII POW who survived. Why veterans' memoirs matter and how ghostwriting preserves them.
Film ListWorld War II Movies
Ranking the 20 greatest WWII films ever made, plus 20 honorable mentions. From Schindler's List to Das Boot, discover the movies that defined war cinema.
LegacyBehind the Wire: The True Story of Frank Hoeffer II, Prisoner of War
The true story of a Navy cook captured at Corregidor, 1942. Three years and four months as a Japanese POW. Written from memory by his grandson at age 65.
FictionThe Last Candle in Constantinople
In the last hours of Constantinople, a mother, her son, and a starving dog find themselves trapped in the Hagia Sophia as an empire dies around them.
Book ReviewsThe Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II
A period reference for one of America's most story-rich eras, gathering the concrete textures of 1920s-40s life, speech, dress, food, prices, technology, so the writing rings true instead of clichéd. Solid and practical, necessarily selective, and overlapping research you can…
Book ReviewsEveryday Life During the Civil War
The Civil War is among the most written-about and most easily botched periods in fiction, and this grounds it in concrete reality, economy, food, clothing, transport, balanced across North and South. Enriched with illustrations and maps. Broad instead of deep,…
Critical ThinkingWas the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary?
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is treated as self-evidently wrong, but the picture from 1945 stops being simple fast.