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Lee Sandlin
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Lee Sandlin's personal blog at leesandlin.com covers history and writing. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Losing the War”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Lee Sandlin's 1997 essay "Losing the War", a long piece on fading memories of World War II. Commenters say they reread it and call it a favorite essay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Work by Chicago writer Lee Sandlin
Most-linked posts?
- Losing the War7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-05-29
- Losing the War2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Read this if you have time to kill: "Losing the War" by Lee Sandlin, about fading memories of World War II, originally published in 1997: https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm I re-read it every couple of years. It's a hazard to my time just pulling up the link again because it's so long yet compelling.
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on “What's happening to reading?”Submitted Losing the War as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis meditation on World War II and memory is probably my favorite essay ever: "Losing the War" by Lee Sandlin https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm Sandlin refers to Fussell's writings on the war too. It's long, but every time I look it up I end up re-reading all of it.
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on “The Real War 1939-1945 (1989)”Submitted The Man Who Edited Melville (1982) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionTo this I will add two more longish, striking, compulsively readable pieces about World War II: Thank God For the Atom Bomb (also by Paul Fussell): https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/unde... Losing the War by Lee Sandlin: https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm
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on “My War (1982)”Submitted Losing the War as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you are interested in a very good (and long) writeup about world war II from a perspective you probably didn't hear about in school: When we try to imagine what happened when the Japanese imperial navy approached Midway Island we're likely to get an image out of Star Wars -- daring attack planes, as graceful as swallows, darting among the ponderously churning cannons of some behemoth of a Death Star. But the sci-…
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on “World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa”Submitted Losing the War as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHow soon I forget the big one(s). Indeed, Hitler himself was more of an architect than anything else (talked about in a digression at http://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm); but I didn't want to Godwin's Law the matter straight out of the gate.
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on “George-Eugène Haussmann, the man who created Paris”Submitted Losing the War as a story · 2 points
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