War and Warfare

News and notes regarding a memoir by a 7th Cavalry U.S. Army soldier who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

His article, "The Secret Weapons of Ukraine," appeared in the February 2023 issue of Esquire.

As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we speak about this, and about other matters, with James M. Lindsay, Senior VP at the Council on Foreign Relations

"One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau tells her remarkable story.... A heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive account." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

On this Veterans Day, we revisit our conversation from last May with Phil Klay, the National Book Award-winning author and U.S. Marine Corps vet.

"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn't always think she'd live to tell her story." -- The New York Times

"One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau tells her remarkable story.... A heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive account from the 20th century's darkest days." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A sure bet for readers of personal war stories and those who want to know, 'What about the women and children?'" -- Booklist

"[The] longest, meatiest and most probing essays and articles presented here share the lasting power of Klay's acclaimed fiction.... [When] read together, [these pieces] amount to an interwoven, evolving, and revealing examination of Klay's central topic: What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting." -- James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review

Nates will be speaking soon here in Tulsa; she'll give the keynote address at the 24th Annual Interfaith Yom HaShoah Commemoration on Thursday night, the 28th.