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'Under Four Flags' is program by the Musicians of Ma'alwyck being performed in the region from May 26 – 30. The program is a World War I tribute featuring a screening of the 1918 Allied propaganda silent film with an original live score by Max Caplan, alongside chamber music honoring the era and fallen soldiers.The concert opens with a work by Mihail Jora, written while he was recovering in a hospital after being wounded on the Eastern Front. His music is a personal response to the devastation of war. The major work is Samuel Gardner's piano quintet, composed after the death of violinist David Hochstein, who was killed on the Western Front in France in October 1918.

In the new book ‘Son of Nobody,’ Yann Martel offers a compelling dual narrative that is immediately striking and unusual on the page. At once a retelling of the trojan war and a heart wrenching record of modern grief and ambition; Martel’s novel grapples with questions of history and mythology whose stories deserve to be told, how do we make meaning in the face of fate’s random cruelty, and chaos.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.You may already be familiar with Homer’s Iliad.And more than 2,000 years later, the ancient Greek epic is taught in classrooms across the country, But recently discovered Roman mosaic offers another telling of the Trojan War.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.You may already be familiar with Homer’s Iliad.And more than 2,000 years later, the ancient Greek epic is taught in classrooms across the country, But recently discovered Roman mosaic offers another telling of the Trojan War.

Norman Ohler, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Blitzed," returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, in "Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age."

Fellowship of Reconciliation is a global movement founded in 1914 to support the rights of conscience in resistance to war and military conscription. We are joined by Executivve Director Ariel Gold and scholar of race, religion, and resistance, Iskander Abbasi.

Norman Ohler, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Blitzed," returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, in "Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age." (Mariner Books)

In his new novel, “Cold Victory,” New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes delivers a sweeping tale of Cold War intrigue set in post-war Finland in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test. The book is layered with action, historical detail, and a keen eye for the way totalitarianism and loss of truth and privacy threatens love and friendship.

More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. The book, "War Made Invisible," by journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences are, from military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home.

In "V is for Victory,"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how President Franklin D. Roosevelt confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, “the arsenal of democracy” that won World War II.