Rebecca West's career as a writer of both fiction and of nonfiction spanned more than seventy years. She excelled in writing novels and short stories, literary theory and criticism, biography, political analysis, and persuasive rhetoric for various cause...

THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER, based on the first novel of the then 24-year-old Rebecca West, is the second theatrical film of the British television director Alan Bridges. His The Hireling (1973) dealt likewise with the foundering of love on England's rigid social...

LAURENCE CHOLLET The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-15-1996 THE SOLDIER RETURNS By LAURENCE CHOLLET Date: 12-15-1996, Sunday Section: BOOKS & MUSIC Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: AUDIOBOOKS The only thing better than a translation by Robert Fagles is a performance by...

Vice-Premier Shimon Peres told a panel investigating the government's handling of last year's war in Lebanon that Israel's decision to invade was a mistake and the military was unprepared, according to testimony made public Thursday.Peres also said Hezbollah did a better job of handling media...

The euphoria of a soldier's homecoming from Iraq often gives way to depression, stress and trouble dealing with family members during the first months home, a new Pentagon study finds.And the adjustment struggle was more profound for National Guard troops and reservists than it was...

What first interests me in [The Return of the Soldier] is its length, or rather its brevity: all is done within one hundred and eighty-five pages…. Miss West's "novella" is an episode, a situation involving but a few days—or would be, were it not for a chronological backthrow which provides perspective, complications, and the road to a highly effective climax. We think, at the start, that we have to deal with Rebecca West as still the brisk and brusque young radical of &#x...