by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 22, 2015 | Images Tell The Story
CNN.com, February 22, 2015 Seventy years ago, on February 23, two American flags were planted on the peak of Mount Suribachi, located on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Coming five days into one of the most ferocious battles of World War II, the first flag-raising,...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 9, 2015 | War
CNN.com, February 9, 2015 Every age has the heroes it deserves, as the saying goes. To judge from the success of the movie “American Sniper,” the hero of the current moment would be the trained killer. Director Clint Eastwood’s movie has been highly...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Dec 29, 2014 | War
Huffington Post, December 29, 2014 What is it like to live in captivity? How does one survive, physically and psychologically, the experience of the deprivation of freedom? Which captives are remembered, and which forgotten? Events over the past year have brought...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Nov 11, 2014 | War
CNN.com, November 11, 2014 We celebrate Veterans Day this week, but we have been riding a crest of war remembrance for months now. World War I’s centenary alone has brought forth new books — histories of that war, based on historical documentation and...
