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There was a heavy snowfall that February night in 1946. A six-year-old boy watched from his bedroom window as the big…

I am in the grand room of the High Commissioner’s Residence in Manila. A crystalchandelier hangs from the ceili…

1. A Child A neglected box in the back of my closet contains a contain a collection of items from my father’s apartme…

As Patrick Hicks’s novel In the Shadow of Dora opens, it is July 1969 in bright-and-sunny Cape Canaveral, Florida. In…

The following is an excerpt from Jennifer Orth-Veillon’s work-in-progress, The Storage Room. Here, she interspe…

Here’s an empty grave, where a body that had been a boy became bones beneath a wooden cross. They buried him with one…

Editor’s Note: “Into the Tunnel” is the first chapter of Patrick Hicks’s new novel, ECLIPSE. …

Andria Williams: Patrick, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me. I’ve just finished reading “Into the…

World War Two never ended. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian science fiction novel, right? Either the bad guys w…

Whatever one might think about the United Kingdom’s recent behavior toward Europe—its antagonism toward the European …

Killing is the easiest thing in the world, easier than sex. Easier than raising a family or bringing a child into the…

The tired, simplistic, bargain-basement Cold War narrative of WWII sucks and it’s time we got over it. Accordi…

How World War II gets remembered isn’t accurate, and for Curzio Malaparte, it's not even true. Not the …

Brad Pitt loves playing in WWII movies. He loves fighting Nazis, who, incredibly, really existed, and were (if a…

Hollywood does not know how to make a film about war. This has been proven on so many different occasions, often aver…

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