Raised on a diet of broken biscuits
By day: academic library monkey. By night: person who makes things and reads when she should be studying.
I use this place as a trivial kind of commonplace book, to collect things which interest/edify/amuse or attract me, along with some journalish musings.
I use this place as a trivial kind of commonplace book, to collect things which interest/edify/amuse or attract me, along with some journalish musings.
Posts tagged "military"
Blinded British Solders depend on each other as they learn to navigate the grounds of St. Dunstan’s Villa in London, a home founded by American banker Otto Kahn.
Photograph by Jimmy Hare, London, England, circa 1915
From The Face of Mercy - A Photographic History of Medicine at War
From Hougton Mifflin
On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Tim O’Brien met with students from Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. He was joined by Nate Fick, the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, to discuss writing and their mutual combat experiences (O’Brien served in Vietnam, Fick in Iraq and Afghanistan).
After O’Brien read a passage from The Things They Carried, the two authors answered questions from Cardozo’s students—and other questions submitted online from students across the United States. Their conversation was broadcast live over the Internet, where it was viewed by more than 300 schools—and is now available for viewing at any time.
After the Recon Marines in 21st Century Iraq, back to 1809, the Peninsular War, and another elite military regiment.
I wonder what my experience of this book would have been if I hadn’t already seen the HBO miniseries, and read the Rolling Stone articles on which the book was based.
