Status Updates From Writers on World War II: An...

The excerpt from Babi Yar nearly made me cry. Just wow. The townsfolk’s antisemitism and support of the expulsion of Jews from Kiev, and then them hearing the shots and realizing what’s actually happening… 😭

So many incredibly written stories and journal entries in here. From pilots badly burned and injured, to witnesses to genocide, like Anatoly.

Really enjoying this so far... a thoughtfully archived collection of short stories, diary entries, poems etc., from some of the world’s best authors, written during WWII.

Many of the later selections are longer. Continues to be wonderful. Touching I F Stone thoughts on the death of FDR and the Ascension of Truman

This is really a good book. Will give it 5 stars now, and I'm only about 3/4 through. Really fine New Yorker article about the work of a LCI during the Normany invasion and another New Yorker about JFK and PT-109. Some chilling short stories by Germans and Japanese, too.

In 1944. Good short story by Heinrich Boll (not much in here from German military side).

Good stuff -- could add more "to-reads" but have too many already!!!

Just finished 1942. Last entry was from "The Gallery," by John Horne Burns, and reminded me what a wonderful book THAT is! Should have put it in the 1943 section, but . . . Entry from Germaine Greer reinforced what a loony tune she is -- talks about a Spitfire " with one engine on fire" tipping a bomb away from a town and into the water. How many engines WERE on that Spitfire, Ms Greer?

REally fine book. Have harvested additional "to-read" candidates.

Now entering 1942

Memoir by Gustave Herling worth a look. Ordered it from KCMO library

Back to this. Good stuff. Reread the section on battle with the Bismarck.

Now into 1941, mostly British input so far. Probably will take hiatus now to deal with library books.