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  • Review: Hooper’s War: An Imaginative Retelling of the End of World War II

    June 14, 2017

    Tags: Astore, Review
    Posted in: Hooper's War



    W.J. Astore, on Bracing Views, reviewing Hooper’s War. You can read the whole review at his site, but this paragraph sums up much of what I am trying to say in the book:

    Nothing good can come from prolonging such a war, and in Van Buren’s retelling, atrocities and tragedies occur with a frequency one would expect of a war driven by racial hatreds and profound cultural misunderstandings. Nevertheless, in the darkness he provides a ray of hope as Lieutenant Nate Hooper, the main character, becomes separated from his unit and has to deal on an intimately human level with a Japanese sergeant. I don’t think I give away much by stating their relationship doesn’t end well for all — such is the reality of a war driven by hatred. The horror of war goes deep, Van Buren shows us, but so too does the potential for mitigating and ultimately for overcoming it.


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    • chuck said...

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      Non Violence is the answer. Stop the Wars, Civil Wars, or whatever. Help your neighbors. Wage Peace. Read the books.

      06/14/17 1:41 PM | Comment Link

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