The March/April issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printers.

The theme of the next issue is World War One: Hell, Heroism and Holiness

Highlights include:

Jon Guttman takes to the skies with French war hero, “Léon Bourjade: The Priestly Balloon-Buster”.

Bernard O’Brien S.J. travels “From Nietzsche to Christ” with German poet, soldier and convert, Reinhard Johannes Sorge.

Edward Mulholland admires “The Catholic Vision of Joyce Kilmer”.

Hungarian War Poet, Geza Gyoni, invites us to join him for “just one bloody night” in the hell of the trenches.

Graeme Garvey reveals “A Catholic Soldier’s World War One Memoirs”.

Irish War Poet, Francis Ledwidge, laments “The Dead Kings”.

Scottish War Poet, Domhnall Ruadh Choruna, sings “The Song of Arras: A Poem of the Great War”.

John Beaumont follows the path to Rome of “Siegfried Sassoon: Convert War Poet”.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker illumines “Tolkien’s Redemption of the Trenches”.

Susan Treacy considers “A Plea for Peace by Vaughan Williams”.

Kevin O’Brien tolls the doom of “The War, the Scandal, the Tomb”.

David Clayton takes “The Way of Beauty” in the full colour art feature.

James Bemis enjoys Marlon Brandon in On the Waterfront.

Donald DeMarco sings the praises of Bob Mathias, “The Last of the Great American Hometown Heroes”.

Brendan D. King reviews Out of the Fire of Hell: Welsh Experience of the Great War 1914-1918 In Prose and Verse.

Ellen A. Carney reviews A Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler.

Fr. Colum Power reviews Fr. George Rutler’s Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942 -1943.

Paula L. Gallagher reviews Seer: A Wizard’s Journal by Jef Murray.

Dena Hunt reviews three books for mystery lovers, surveying aspects of Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox and Ralph McInerny.

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