“War Horse” – Finding the Words for World War I

Courtesy Dreamworks “They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?” ― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse The 100th anniversary of World War […]

Preparing for Parade’s End – and a New Beginning for IWM

From Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford: “The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.” “In every man there are two minds that work side by […]