http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/03/14/aero-verses/ Russia History Culture Technology (and, of course, Aviation) Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:10:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/03/14/aero-verses/comment-page-1/#comment-3248 Investigations of a Dog » Military History Carnival #1 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:08:23 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/03/14/aero-verses-%d0%90%d1%8d%d1%80%d0%be-%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%85%d0%b8/#comment-3248 [...] Turning to fiction, everyone has been blogging about the film 300. Alun Salt’s post at Archaeoastronomy is my pick of the historical perspectives on the film, but Alex Sarll also deserves a quick mention for actually knowing about comics and mentioning Frank Miller. Back in World War II even Walt Disney was making propaganda films. Didier Ghez at Disney History and David at Toons at War tell us about Donald Duck’s crusade against fascism in Der Fuehrer’s Face. George Simmers at Great War Fiction examines the lull in the publication of war books in Britain the 1920s. While the British had had enough of war stories in the 1920s, the Soviet Union was mobilising poets to glorify Soviet air power. Most of their output has been deservedly forgotten, but Scott Palmer digs some of it up at Dictatorship of the Air. Steve Muhlberger criticises Terry Jones’s criticism of Chaucer’s knight. [...] [...] Turning to fiction, everyone has been blogging about the film 300. Alun Salt’s post at Archaeoastronomy is my pick of the historical perspectives on the film, but Alex Sarll also deserves a quick mention for actually knowing about comics and mentioning Frank Miller. Back in World War II even Walt Disney was making propaganda films. Didier Ghez at Disney History and David at Toons at War tell us about Donald Duck’s crusade against fascism in Der Fuehrer’s Face. George Simmers at Great War Fiction examines the lull in the publication of war books in Britain the 1920s. While the British had had enough of war stories in the 1920s, the Soviet Union was mobilising poets to glorify Soviet air power. Most of their output has been deservedly forgotten, but Scott Palmer digs some of it up at Dictatorship of the Air. Steve Muhlberger criticises Terry Jones’s criticism of Chaucer’s knight. [...]

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