What So Proudly We Hailed
di Alessandra Stanley The New York Times
World War II didn’t happen just to us.
But it would be hard to glean that from Ken Burns’s 7-night, 15-hour tribute to the greatest generation that ever bought war bonds, joined the Marines or tightened rivets on a B-17 Flying Fortress.
The London blitz, Stalingrad, Bergen-Belsen and the Warsaw uprising are parentheses in this respectful, moving and meticulously illustrated anthology of small-town lives turned upside down by what one elderly veteran calls “a necessary war.”
The war was necessary, but is this approach?
The tone and look of Mr. [...]
di Alessandra Stanley, articolo completo (7678 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 settembre 2007
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