Wërra

"Last night while sleeping the French attacked Syria." The next morning, the author reads the news in the newspaper. French planes have attacked military targets in which chemical weapons were allegedly stored. The fact impacts him because he is currently living in France, specifically in Saint-Nazaire. And, starting from it, he begins a meditation that is branched off into a string of intimate or historical stories, joined by the "Wërra", the old German word from which "guerra" in Spanish, "guerre" in French or "war" in English. Frederick Jeanmaire painstakingly reconstructs Operation Chariot: the attack on the French port of Saint-Nazaire, which the Germans had occupied, carried out during the early hours of March 28, 1942 by British commandos with the aim of destroying its dry dock. And, pulling that warlike thread, it evokes the grandfather who made little soldiers; the father with whom, in Argentina, being a child, he watched the American series Combate on television, whose protagonist, Vic Morrow, died many years later in an accident filming a war scene; the war that Argentina lived in 1982, that of the Falklands...