Table of Contents
Volume 31, 2019
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Donald Anderson / The Soldier’s Tale: Elliot Ackerman’s Places and Names
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Kelly Griffith on Dunya Mikhail
Kreg Abshire on Rolf Yngve
Thomas McGuire on John Balaban
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Cord A. Scott / Comic Images from “Over There”: Soldier Produced Comics of WWI
Renée C. Belliveau / Preserving the Second World War through Eyewitness Accounts: The Wartime Diary of Mary (Mulry) Morris
Michael Sarnowski / The War in the Air: Post-War Memory in the Poetry of Howard Nemerov and Richard Hugo
Oscar Mardell / Goodbye, Beautiful: Iris Origo’s A Chill in the Air and War in Val d’Orcia
Adam Ahlgrim / Ethical Modernity and the Case of The Heart of the Matter
Patrick Whalen / A Hell of One’s Own: Combat Trauma in Dante’s Inferno
Philip Beidler / W.G. Sebald’s Engraftings of History and Memory in Austerlitz
Wayne Karlin / Writing the War
Tim Wenzell / “The war was always there, but we did not go to it any more”: William Everson, William Stafford, and World War II Pacifist Literature
Shane A. Emplaincourt / King and Country.: Remembering a Chthonic Tragedy at Passchendaele, 1917
Linda Holland-Toll / Tradition Sabotaged, Subverted and Slain: Post-Somme War Poetry and the Martial Canon
ARTWORK
Larry Abbott / The Art of Erasure: A conversation with Monty Little
Terry Graff’s Warbirds: An Ornithological Tour de Force
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Fred Lambert / Camp Coyote, Kuwait (2003)
J. Malcolm Garcia / Maybe One Day
Rebecca Evans / Gaming
POETRY
Ilyse Kusnetz / Private Tandey, 1940
Eric Janken / Four Poems
John Barr / Black Powder
Tom Schmidt / Head Shot
Curt Last / Two Poems
Larry D. Thacker / Three Poems
Karen Head / Two Poems
HC Palmer / Two Poems
s.g.t. grasmuck / penelope
Stephen Gibson / Two Poems
Scott Beauchamp / Venus, Dante, Crow
Amy Schmitz / Two Poems
K.R. Rosman / Distraction
David K. Vaughan / Flying a Cargo Aircraft into Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive, 1968
Joseph Pagano, Jr. / Pike and Cromwell
John Guzlowski / My Father’s 3rd Winter in Buchenwald
Sophis Galifianakis / Two Poems
Robert Hedin / Two Poems
.chisaraokwu. / Three Poems
Brock Jones / Two Poems
Maureen Fielding / Cold Warrior Matryoshka
Liam Corley / Two Poems
Gale Acuff / A Picture of the Old Man
INTERVIEW
Kevin Basl / Revisiting Winning Hearts and Minds: A Conversation with Jan Barry
PERSONAL ESSAY
Bernard L. Marie / Reasonable Men
Gabriel Heller / The Human Part
Beth Taylor / On Mourning
Virginia Brackett / “In the Company of Patriots”
Haning Z. Hughes / The War in Their Lives
Hugh Wilson / An Adventurous Day
MEMOIR
Nolan Capps / Smoke Signals
Carl Dowdey and Jim Minick / From a WWII Memoir
Jenn Gilgan / Puzzles
Mike Kubista / Gas! Gas! Gas!
Quan Manh Ha and Tran Van Dinh / The Quirks and Whims of Heaven: A Meeting with President John F. Kennedy and the Buddhist Crisis
Jonathan Burgess / “Something for the Pain”
Guy Choate / Servant of Freedom
Joshua Reynolds and Eric L. Gruver / A Path Less Traveled: A B-17 Navigator in World War II Europe
FOUR FILM REVIEWS by Jonathan Lighter
12 Strong
317th Platoon
The Captain
A Private War
BOOK REVIEWS by Jason Poudrier / Mark E. Grotelueschen / Emily Berexa
Cherry by Nico Walker
Eisenhower’s Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France by Benjamin Jones
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force by Eliot Cohen
EXHIBITION REVIEW by Matthew Stewart
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One, Tate Britain, 5 June - 23 September 2018