Meirion harries biography sample

274 The Journal of American History The Last Days of Innocence: America at war, 1917-1918.

A fine history that analyzes the military legacy of the Imperial Japanese Army and assesses moral responsibility for its excesses.

A fine history that analyzes the military legacy of the Imperial Japanese Army and assesses moral responsibility for its excesses.

This biography describes an extraordinary personality, as vulnerable and often unhappy as she was attractive and original.

Harries, Meirion and Susie.

Susie Harries is a writer specializing in culture, history, and the arts.

The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, – audiobook written by Meirion Harries, Susie Harries.

By Meirion Harries and Susie Har- ries. (New York: Random House, 1997. xvi, 573 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-679-41863-6.) as one might hope. The Harrieses, who have written two previous books on the effects of total war in this century, are clearly more comfortable describing military tactics and battlefield heroics than in analyzing war-induced social changes and politics in the United States.

The author is a touch revisionist, in the modern fashion, in noting that the Earps and Clantons weren't as bloodthirsty as popular culture has made them out to.

They devote as much space to one heroic but minor battle-involving Maj. Charles Whittlesey's famous "lost battalion" - as they do to the tumultuous wartime labor conflicts in the United States. And one learns a good deal about the famous doughboy Alvin C.

York, without finding mention of the union leader William Z. Foster or the massive wartime steelworkers' organizing drive. Indeed, the Harrieses refer to the great steel strike of 1919, wh