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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 519–520.
Published: 01 September 2015
...David Bellos Findlay Jean , Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator . ( New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2015 ), 368 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 509.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Alick Isaacs James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 304 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 505.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Siniša Malešević Levinson Nan , War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built . ( New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2014 ), 281 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 229–268.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Alick Isaacs Following directly upon an account of the author's personal experiences as a young soldier in Gaza during the course of the first intifada in 1987, this essay is an attempt to “cash in” rabbinic statements that present the entire Torah as a path to peace. The essay suggests...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 97–153.
Published: 01 January 2009
... attention to the paradoxes and ironies of the war from the point of view of a civilian reserve foot soldier and father of five serving in a frontline infantry unit. Significant sections of this narrative are dedicated to the moral, ethical, and religious questions that he grappled with during the war...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 January 2016
... negotiation. The final instance is of a modern European narrative in which the specific causes and consequences of the Great War are obscure to the soldiers fighting in it. It is random chance, rather than the negotiation or transcendence of difference, that is thought, in this mode, to determine who lives...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 April 2004
...- trary, a soldier who cannot make peace with the war’s end. But he is also a con- scientious objector to the modern world, to the free flow of capital that renders honor and justice finally irrelevant. Lessing’s drama explores the question of pas- COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2021
... years ago but of special relevance now, Tulba s novel tells the story of Obinna, a child soldier. He is eleven years old, living with his mama, papa, and an older brother in an unnamed African village. Obinna dreams of being a doctor when he grows up. And there is no reason why he should not be. He...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 304–309.
Published: 01 April 2002
... in the military academies and in the training of soldiers, sailors, marines, and flyers. No group in the United States pays more attention to ethi- cal restraint on the use of force than does its armed forces. The Pentagon is not 308 intending or even threatening to kill some three thousand...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 371–386.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Which, even though they look good they though even Which, : SomeRUNAWAY led to has whom panic SOLDIERS...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 433–450.
Published: 01 August 2012
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all that another war had started. Later that day...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 149.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all that another war had started. Later that day...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 150.
Published: 01 January 2010
... soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all that another war had started. Later that day, the girls said...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all that another war had started. Later that day...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... At the beginning of May, my daughters had stood again, this time in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 152.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in Israel, when sirens throughout the country howled in commemoration of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. At the beginning of May, my daughters had stood again, this time in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., like everyone else in Israel, when sirens throughout the country howled in commemoration of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. At the beginning of May, my daughters had stood again, this time in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 January 2010
... had stood again, this time in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in commemoration of six thousand soldiers who per- ished during the War of Independence in 1948 — one out of ten Jews who lived at that time in Palestine. And my daughters were on their way to school when sirens announced to us all that another war had started. Later that day...