Language is like poppies,” says a character in Ali Smith’s “Autumn,” from 2016. “It just takes something to churn the earth ...
Ethelred is dead and we are still at war with the Viking invaders ... Voice 2: Some days he is so ill he cannot ride his horse. Voice 1: Alfred has fought bravely in battle.
Caroline Blackwood, 1953. When Lady Caroline Blackwood walked through the graveyard that housed her ancestors, she felt ...
Narrator: Excuse me. Yes ... But they weren’t always at war. They were mostly farmers who lived in wooden huts. Children here would generally not go to school. Girls would help around the ...
The above camera quote captures Isherwood's perceptive ability to record the places, peoples, and events he experienced as an observing narrator revealing little ... who died in the trenches of World ...
Coming up on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War there is a new Apple TV+ docuseries Vietnam: The War That Changed America. It premieres January 31, Each of the ...
There is the old saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Coming up on the 50th anniversary of ...
Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...
The War Horse' responded: ''I don't think there was actually enough time to even jump on him, when he dropped it was like a split second.'' ...