On Nov. 11, Canadians will mark Remembrance Day. CBC Books has curated this list of books giving insight into experiences of war, its impact on human life and its lasting reverberations.
Like many other veterans of World War II, J.D. Salinger returned home bearing scars more psychological than physical. He hid ...
As Armistice Day, or Veterans' Day, marks the end of WWI and honors soldiers sacrifices, it seems fitting that a number of ...
Back in 1991, before I became a full-time writer, I was a Defense Department civilian employee. I recall attending a Defense Department conference in Memphis, Tennessee, where I heard an Army colonel ...
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Manpower shortages, and shortages of just about everything else, dominated daily life during the Packers' sixth championship ...
To call them war stories won’t do them justice. More than just tales of combat, three veterans made sure the annals of their ...
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Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...
There are a lot of TV shows that have their roots in literature, and this comes from a wide variety of genres. Anything from fantasy to comedy to sci-fi can have literary origins, and tend to be a ...
Jewish author Talia Carner thought she’d seen the worst after hundreds of antisemitic trolls review-bombed her new novel a few months back in retaliation for a pro-Israel video she posted on Instagram ...
Book-to-movie adaptations are kind of a common thing in cinema, and they have been for about 100 years now. In fact, there are many movies out there that some don't even realize have literary origins, ...