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 | From Erik Wander, your About Books & Literature Editor Americans have observed Memorial Day or some version thereof since the end of the Civil War. From stories about understanding a soldier's sacrifice and paying tribute to the brave men and women who gave their lives for our country to remembering all those who suffered or died as a result of war, consider these books among your reading this week. | |
Hemingway on WWI in 'A Farewell to Arms'
This novel, published in 1929, is based on Ernest Hemingway's experiences in Northern Italy during the First World War and centers on a romance involving American Frederic Henry, a volunteer in the Italian army, set against the backdrop of the war. "God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her," Fred says, among other memorable quotes in this novel by an American literary giant.
| Stephen Crane on Civil War in 'The Red Badge of Courage'
"Henry Fleming begins as a naive young man, eager to experience the glory of war," writes our Homework / Study Tips Guide about this classic about Henry Fleming, an American private with the Union Army during the Civil War, who initially flees the enemy, only to redeem himself in a subsequent standoff. "He soon faces the truth about war and his own self-identity on the battlefield, however." Among these quotes from Crane's masterpiece you'll find this: "He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man."
| Vonnegut on WWII in 'Slaughterhouse-Five'
Published in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical, semi-autobiographical take on war using the firebombing of Dresden, which Vonnegut survived as a prisoner of war near the end of WWII, as its basis. Here is a look at some of the more memorable quotes from this influential American classic. Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
| 'The Wall' Makes War Accessible for Young Children
A boy travels with his father to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to find his grandfather's name on the wall, "my grandfather's wall," as he calls it, in this picture book featuring watercolor illustrations by Richard Himler. In the process of searching for the name of his father's father, the two meet other people who have made the journey themselves for their own reasons. Find out what's written on the wall.
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