an immigrant’s daughter unlocks the mystery of her father Zbyszek’s recurring nightmares by listening to his war stories and traveling with him to the once Polish city of Lwów (today’s ...
A major in a military regime in Sierra Leone faces a moral dilemma
when the daughter of his beloved teacher commits treason.
Read by Terence Anderson:
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A soldier lies dying on the road when the enemy comes over for a souvenir.
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A professor of 20th-century American history who fought in Vietnam intends to write a book about his experiences. When he finds he is unable to express his feelings, however, a ...
After the show’s debut in 2014, the English National Ballet returns to the London dance scene, this time to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. ...
The Acedian Pirates, by debut playwright Jay Taylor, is not afraid to take on themes of warfare and the power of myth.
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While Owen Sheers’ verse drama about soldiers in Afghanistan has a troubling tendency to tell rather than show, it has moments of real poignancy.
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In the first of a new column dedicated to her thoughts on culture, Eleanor Franzén looks at how women who write about war invite scorn from their male colleagues. ...
“When Donald Rumsfeld was asked by a journalist why he was so sure that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he said: ‘We have the receipts’. Shakespeare would ...
“An enemy aeroplane appears at the edge of the blue, among the gun bursts. Eyes look up towards the torn sky. You can see the whites, but not the whites ...
In a response to Alan Gillespie’s recent article for Litro on the impact of video games on teenagers’ creative writing, gamer and writer Jordan Erica Webber argues that we should ...
The Things They Carried is, essentially, a collection of related war stories. But it also redefines what a war story truly is: not a traditional hero narrative of courage, but ...
Life seemed so much simpler to Gavrilovich Gikalov during his youth. The Soviet regime was liberating the third world against the tyrannical US and her oppressive allies, as the radio ...
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When Sofia and her granddad passed through the archway and into the square, everything was still under one big shadow. Her hand felt hot inside her granddad’s and he was ...
For the first six days Hassan couldn’t leave the house he shared with his mother, father and two younger sisters, Haja and Farrah. As explosions juddered the floor and the ...
Because you expect me to speak about it, too, I suppose. Because if I have the medal, then there must be the stories to tell too, right? The stories; come ...
Louie Stowell 2011
Louie Stowell has been drawing cartoons and other illustrations for Litro for a year or so. Her drawings have appeared in other ...
Lavishly camouflaged and armed with broken branches and sticks, customised until they resembled the latest in 1970s mercenary hardware, and with Army/Navy store cast-off berets and cap badges and a ...
One less friend to call on. I turned the shovel and tamped the earth over the grave.
‘Was it someone that I knew?’ Stearns had come up behind me with his ...
