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Going Beyond the Tale of a Boy and His Horse

By Adam Hochschild, TomDispatch Mar 1, 2012 For all the spectacle of thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches and wartime love and loss, the current popular storytellers of the First World War skip over the conflict's greatest moral drama by leaving out part of its cast of characters. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

A ‘War Horse’ and His Boy

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Dec 24, 2011 Boy gets horse Boy loses horse Boy (after many adventures, especially by the horse) is reunited with the animal In terms of narrative, that’s all there is to “War Horse” -- except to say that Steven Spielberg’s film is a lovely and touching movie, representing, among other things, a vast improvement on the extraordinarily successful novel and stage play . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

After 95 Years, Sweden Calls Killing of Armenians Genocide

Staff / Truthdig Mar 12, 2010 The Swedish parliament took a vote Thursday on an important wording issue, and the end result led to diplomatic strain between Sweden and Turkey. That's because the word that parliament members decided on was genocide, and the incident they were applying it to was the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 23, 2008 I'm not sure of this, but I think -- I suspect and feel -- that the Great War, the war of 1914-1918, is beginning to dominate our lives even more than the terrible and infinitely more costly conflict of 1939-1945. The Second World War may haunt our lives. The First World War, it seems to me, imprisons us all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )