Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, 473 pp., $27 By Bill WilliamsFor weeks, Unbroken has been perched at or near the top of the nonfiction best-seller list, and for good reason.The book tells the riveting story of a World War II airman who survived for 47 days in 1943 on a … [Read more...]
Book review: Soldiers of ‘Untold War’ bear the awful moral burden alone
By Bill WilliamsMost civilians are unaware of the physical and psychic horrors endured by soldiers, according to this timely new book by Nancy Sherman, a professor at Georgetown University.Sherman says up front that The Untold War “is not a political tract for or against a war.” Rather, it is about “the inner battles … the moral weight of war that individual … [Read more...]