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Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
12 April 2024

Opium to the "Fragrant Harbor": a Short History of British Hong Kong (1842-1997)

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Presentation on the history of Hong Kong during the British colonial time. Hong Kong is called the "fragrant harbor" because so st...
21 August 2022

Book Review: The Good German of Nanking (1998) by John Rabe, edited by Erwin Wickert, *****

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Synopsis The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to prote...
19 April 2022

Una visione strategica sulla guerra in Ucraina

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La guerra è in pieno sviluppo e sembra destinata a durare ancora per un po’. L'esito non è sicuro, ma la Russia ha sicuramente fallito n...
02 March 2022

Sulle sanzioni contro la Russia / sanctions against Russia

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ENGLISH TEXT BELOW Avendo escluso un conflitto diretto con la Russia per difendere l'Ucraina, i paesi occidentali hanno concentrato la l...
28 February 2022

Considerazioni sull'aggressione russa all'Ucraina / Some considerations on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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ENGLISH TEXT BELOW Premetto, se ce ne fosse bisogno, che l'invasione russa non si giustifica, senza se e senza ma. Putin pagherà perché ...
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07 August 2021

Film review: Emperor (2012) by Peter Webber, *****

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Synopsys Brigadier-General Bonner Fellers ( Matthew Fox ) is sent to Japan as a part of the occupation force. He is tasked with arresting J...
29 January 2021

Book review: The Gate, by François Bizot (2004), *****

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Synopsys In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer R...
01 March 2020

Film review: Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) by Scott Hicks ****

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Synopsys Scott Hicks' screen adaptation of David Guterson's best-selling novel. On San Pietro Island, shortly after the end of ...
04 February 2019

Peleliu island, Republic of Palau

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My third time on this small island whose sand is soaked with history. Today for the first time with my wife. In between dives we took a walk...
29 January 2019

Iro wreck dives, Palau

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The " Iro " was not a "maru", like most wrecks in the Chuuk lagoon, ie it was not a merchant transport converted to mili...
21 May 2018

Belfast and Giants’ Causeway

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As we disembark we see piles of coal at the harbor, they tell us it is still extensively used for home heating! We have a guide who is ob...
10 May 2018

Film review: Youth (2017) by Feng Xiaogang, *****

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Synopsis When Xiaoping joins the military, delicate dreams are dashed by the events of a China undergoing revolution. The devastating Sino...
10 November 2016

Book review: Hunan Harvest (1946) by Theophane Maguire, ****

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Synopsis Diary of a young American Passionist missionary who is sent deep into China to preach and help. Theophane is just twenty-five y...
12 June 2013

Film review: Flags of our Fathers (2006) by Clint Eastwood, ****

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testo italiano di seguito Synopsis The film is about a photograph by James Rosenthal , one of the most famous war pictures of all time...
19 March 2013

Film review: Casablanca (1942), by Michael Curtiz, *****

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Buy the poster by clicking here Synopsis Casablanca : a French colonial city during WW II: still governed by unoccupied Vichy France, ...
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16 March 2013

Film review: The Burmese Harp (1956), by Kon Ichikawa, *****

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Synopsis A rhapsodic celebration of song, a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality, and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; eve...